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Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

The wasabi is usually fake...just horseradish. The real wasabi is about $80 lb.

I've had the real stuff. I've watched them grind the root. I've even had it ground on a traditional sharkskin covered board.

Wasabi: you know it well, or so you think. Chances are, however, you've never actually eaten real wasabi, or at least not very often. This is because most of the wasabi served outside of Japan is a mixture of horseradish, mustard and food coloring. Even in Japan, the demand for real wasabi is so high that you'll often find the horseradish mixture instead, with little, if any, real wasabi mixed in.

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

Don't you guys get the fish sauce in a plastic fish? You twist the tail off.

I make my own Wasabi from scratch. It's easy once you've done it a few times.

You buy the root?

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

I haven't seen the plastic fish in decades. Back then it was filled with soy sauce, not fish sauce. You make your own wasabi, from wasabi root? You are talking about these, right?

Right, that's soy sauce, not fish sauce. Fish sauce in the condiment of choice in Vietnam and Thailand and I think a couple of other countries. It's made from fermented fish, not soybeans and grain which is what soy sauce is made from.