Hey, man, if I'm going to drop $60 on sushi, I can eat it any damned way I want. Wasabi and soy sauce tastes good on some types of sushi, and terrible on others. Rubbing chopsticks is just a tradition that came out of people dealing with shitty chopsticks. Ain't no call for rubbing in a decent restaurant.
Yeah, I suppose if you're ordering a $90 steak, you can ask them to cook it well done and ask for a side of A1 too. Its your freedom to do so, you just look like a moron for doing so. I've used wooden chopsticks forever, never got any splinters with them, never rubbed them.
Whats wrong with wasabi and soy sauce? It seems to me 95% of people do this at sushi. As far as rubbing chopsticks, never gotten a splinter, but when they break uneven it smooths them out to rub. I am actually not a big chop-stick-rubber, but I think i have done it at some point.
Its not that they don't taste good together, its that you don't need to mix them. Nigiri already has wasabi in it, so juts a little bit of soy is good. Sashimi I just put a little wasabi on the fish and then dip it in the soy. I'm will El Prez, you have every right to do so, but it's like asking for a well done steak and A-1 at Ringside. People mispronouncing foreign words (even though we do it I'm sure) is one of my wife's biggest pet peeves. Its hilarious watching her cringe when people order nigiri or maguro.
that's probably because you're eating with a bunch of yuppies who don't know any better. its an american phenomenon based on groupthink because it "seems right" or they seem other people do it and it becomes a habit. its just a mess and basically overpowering the fish with this strange slurry of two ingredients that aren't meant to be mixed together. Its insulting to the sushi chef because you're telling him "I don't want to taste this sushi, so I'm going to dunk it in hot sauce".
also, people who salt their food before tasting it. they get something, they immediately start adding salt....you can't know how seasoned a dish is, its just doing something out of habit.
We got sushi with this one girl who just submerged the entire roll in soy. Ate it and thought it was too salty (wanted low sodium soy). So instead of using less, she cut the soy with water! It was soooo hard not to crack up at her.
yeah, my brother was kind of the same way and got pissed whenever I made fun of him for doing it. then he watched Jiro dreams of sushi and started changing his way. lol.
For me its not a matter of having the soy, it's just a vehicle to get plenty of wasabi on my sushi. Love that dry heat, eyes water, mouth puckers for a second and then..... ahhhh, it all relents into the beautiful flavors of the sushi. If I go to Japan, I'll do it their way, but while in America I will go with our norm since I tend to enjoy it more.
oh yeah, I can't stand people who write "nom nom nom" whenever they see a food picture. what the fuck is that shit.
I have no problems with slow drivers on a two laned hwy, but when the passing lane comes along and they speed up to 70 so they can't be passed and then slow back down to 50 when the passing lanes ends. I swear I'm gonna start pushing them off the road.
Mostly I just find it annoying when people say certain phrases to try to sound smart. "What have you." "Whatnot." "Whilst." This is not the dark ages. No matter how many times you read Game of Thrones, you will not sound smarter by saying "whilst". Also, it's "I couldn't care less." It annoys the hell out of me when people get that wrong. Normally I don't really care about grammar, but that one gets used a lot and it's always annoying.
