1 - Use your fingers to grasp ngiri:Taisho Jiro says that because his family offers you superior nigiri - extremely light, contains a lot of air - it’s not easy to hold and should be gently pinchedand lifted to help maintain integrity. It can take a whole year as a patron to master the necessary hand shape.2 - Use chopsticks, if your weakness dictates:Jiro says that if you wish to pick up the sushi placed on your tray with a pair of chopsticks you can - but you must make an initial attempt with your fingers, to avoid dishonour. If you are using sticks he says you should think of the sushi as a “portable shrine” - the sticks are the shrine’s “carrying poles”. Thinking of things in this way is in keeping with wabi-sabi, and therefore, preserves your limited dignity. 3 - Avoiding spillages: Gentle, gentle, gentle and always from the right angle - you don’t want to drop neta down into the unwashed world below. This would bring grave dishonour upon your lineage, and any taisho worth his vinegar would bar your family from his temple for three generations. 5 - delicate brush paints the shoyu:ONLY If the sushi chef has not brushed nikiri shoyu on your sushi, pick up a small amount of shoga (pickled ginger) and use it as a calligraphy brush to apply shoyu. Jiro says you should “brush it across the top of the neta, never quite holding anything but the wind.” Ponder upon this, and by understanding one thing, you may eventually understand ten thousand things. 6 - On the apsect of cold fire, without reliance upon five pungent roots:You should eat just a pinch of the accompanying pickled ginger - it will cleanse the palate - but never take too much. Taking too much is so dishonourable that if you do so, you must name your second, and compose your haiku immediately. This is not negotiable, and will be enforced by the taisho. Wasabi must never be slurried. There will be no further elaboration.
7 - The otherworldly aspect of steam:Jiro says he believes that tea is the best drink for further palate cleansing. However, it must be green tea, properly steeped and then an offering must be rendered to the tea pet. The first brew for adversaries. The second for honoured guests. The third for the taisho. Always remember this. The leaves must be green. No other tea colour is acceptable. White tea is considered acceptable in the Kansai region, but they are barbarians. 8 - Don’t dip shari into shoyu: An old proverb warns that doing so would spoil the flavor of both the shari and the neta. In particular, the sense of umami would be diminished. A wasted fish is like a painting with no signature. 9 - nitsume?:Jiro proclaims: if it’s covered in eels sauce, you are not permitted the additional flavour of onions sauce. 10 - Don’t invert Neta.Jiro challenges you: “If you turn ngiri upside down when eating it, your mouth will feel a strange sensation since the rice has a temperature different from your tongue.” Expect the second strange sensation to be the taisho caving your teeth in and forcing them down your throat. 11 - Don’t seperate neta:As Jiro says, “pulling off the neta is the gravest insult to the taisho”. An important lesson for all. 12 - Avoid Disaster:Ngiri must be consumed in exactly one bite. Jiro speaks, “it should be precisely 2 sun.” An improperly sized mouth is a sign from the Kami. Your palate was deformed as a punishment for sins in a past life, and as such, you must exit the temple.
13 - Conservation of motion:Sushi must be savoured as soon as it makes contact with the counter top. “You could spend ten thousand lifetimes seeking a treasure greater than fresh ngiri, but you would be left as empty handed as a fisherman’s wife” says the taisho. 15 - Respect your taisho:He is a king in his private domain. You must tip your taisho in the first meeting if you ever want to expect anything except offcuts to pass from his skilled hands towards you again. To maintain decorum the two of you must not be seen exchanging the envelope. Otherwise his store will be foreclosed and your business ventures will be cursed to fail for nine and a half years. Master this and you may finally taste toro.16- The three jewels:Finally, respect the temple, and remember, the three jewels build on one another. The temple houses the taisho. The taisho makes the ngiri. Thank the temple for the taisho when you enter. Thank the taisho for your nigiri when you exit.
Not angry enough
>>221000503The temple is not a place for anger. It is a place for quiet contemplation of the observable umami.
imagine if they learned how to cook fish
>>221000462>>221000471>>221000480if a society is too timid to enforce their rules then are the rules real?
>>221000624Cooking a fish, hoping for more flavour, is like a long armed monkey reaching for his reflection upon the surface of the still waters, hoping for connection. >>221000647Like the monkey, we only discover what was once real when it proven it never was. Ponder upon this.
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>>221000624they've been terrified of fire since hiroshima and nagasaki
>thing>thing, japanwill weirdos ever abandon this strange obsession with japan
>>221000737It’s funny because I logically understand that it makes no sense. But I wouldn’t let anyone from a different nationality serve me raw fish. Guess I got psyop’d.
for me? it’s a spicy mayo california roll, dipped deep into the onion sauce
>>221000984What the fuck? I thought because onions becomes onions, I could say onion and it would become s o y. Fix this now moot.
>>221000462I like to go to the sushi restaurant and hold a single chopstick and JAB it into the sushi like an icepick. I then dunk it in every sauce a couple times and eat it in one bite. Is that bad form or rude? Oh well.
>>221001224Is your shop perhaps a diminished westernised chain restaurant sushi train? I can only hope so. Otherwise, your taisho has already planned his banzai kamikaze attack. He’s just waiting for the correct opening. Taisho are all very wise in military strategy. Sun Tzu is required reading before you are even allowed to vinegar the rice.
>>221001224I do all of this but prior to stabbing the sushi rolls with my chopstick katana, i tie a few napkins together and make myself a headband before I yell "Banzai!" and dunk my sush in all the sauces. I also only eat at the most highly regarded places with the most educated chefs.
>>221000462Can I get some ketchup..?
Why is this board so obsessed with food?
>>221001646Ketchup isn’t very oriental. I use sriracha! One time the chef came up to me like he wanted a fight, but then he saw the rooster on my bottle, and he bowed deeply and apologised.
>put green stuff in dark stuff>use chop stick to stir it around>drop in each roll to soak up the sauce>throw pink stuff away
>the scene that SAVED /tv/
>>221000462dip the mcdonald chip in the ice cream
>>221001697I don't remember this scene from breaking bad
>>221001626Watch out guys, this anon means business.
>>221001742It's the episode titles THE EGG, THE EGG
>>221001647It began for me by trying to find the perfect food to pair with my movie. One day, I found the finest cuisine imaginable: ngiri sushi. But I couldn’t pair it with any kino. No matter how hard I tried. Even the finest kino I could imagine, like Godzilla: All Monster Attack or They Live just never worked! Then one day, a wise anon recommended I watch Jiro Dreams of Sushi.When it got to the famous scene, where Jiro says:“Many other kinds of cuisine pair well with different films, but when you eat good sushi, it is the film”, only then did I finally understand. I wept tears of joy as he said it. My life hasn’t been the same since.
>>221000647Bring you cellphone to my local temple (Happy Rolls) and find out, you baka gaijin.
