The other day it was a maid cafe in Culver City, now we get word that naked sushi has made its way to Clearwater, Florida.
CLEARWATER — Chef David Keir looks out over the crowd in the dark, smoke-filled lounge, then slowly slides the model’s black kimono off her body.
She’s wearing the smallest of G-strings and […]

This post is not directly about Japan, but it is about sushi, so I think it just makes the cut.
Koi restaurant in New York City has added a very pricey sushi roll to their menu- the High Roller.
A chef brings the sushi roll to you table side, shaves white alba truffles and drizzles 100 year […]

These hotaru ika are so called because they supposedly glow in the dark (hotaru means firefly). I couldn’t get anyone to tell me which part of the hotaru ika glowed and certainly they weren’t glowing while dead and on a plate. But nearly every meal I had last week included hotaru ika.

I ate these […]

It’s a good source of calcium. And quite tasty.

What with USB sushi memories, sushi police, giant sushi, and the difficulty of making sushi in outer space, it’s not surprising that Japan Culture Lab has created a how-to video on the correct Japanese way of consuming the traditional raw fish and rice treat. Actually, the video may be somewhat satirical and not to be […]

I came across this today and it’s a must see. A customer placed a digital camera on the conveyor belt at a Sushi shop in Tokyo and managed to capture a few seconds of each customer enjoying their meal.

Only in Japan:

Something shaky is about to hit Japanese meal tables — poisonous giant jellyfish!
Wobbling its way onto the Japanese cuisine are huge Echizen jellyfish, which have been appearing in massive schools flocking off the Sea of Japan coastline and gorging on more palatable fare, like prized maguro tuna.
“Making them a popular food is the […]

In a bold move that has many people very upset, starting early 2008 the government of Japan will be sending out “Sushi Police” across the globe to Japanese restaurents to determin if that particular establishment is worthy of being called “Japanese cuisine”.
In what is being billed as an attempt to protect culture, the government is […]

That sushi do’s and don’ts from a few days ago reminded me of this sushi series that came out a while back. I thought they were pretty interesting. And if there is one thing your friends will appreciate, it’s you analyzing the chef’s body hair next time you go out for soosh.
You may […]

Here’s a good one for the muckamucks who would have everyone believe that there is a one and only “proper” way to eat sushi — chopsticks with a built-in soy sauce well!

No more worrying about whether your tuna should be facing upward or downward when its hits the sauce. Simply select the morsel you […]

Check out this absolutely hilarious video on how (not) to enjoy sushi in Japan.

Though this video is an obvious spoof, I wonder whether it will turn up one day as a serious documentary on Hong Kong TV. . .
Thanks to Lord George Nathaniel Curzon over at Coming Anarchy.

The Michelin Red Guide to New York restaurants has just come out and three “Japanese” eateries have made the list. They are:

Masa
Jewel Bako
Nobu

I’ve never been to Masa because I can’t imagine paying the astronomical price ($350 prix-fixe). Jewel Bako is wonderful. But Nobu? I realize this is a completely unscientific poll, but I don’t […]

Suzumo Machinery Co., Ltd. of Japan has announced a new robot that can produce wrapped sushi at a speeds up to 2000 pieces an hour.

The sushi is wrapped in a special film that is designed for easy removal before eating.
A separate printing module can be added to print the preparation date and […]

A Tokyo-based humorist, in an online commentary titled “So You Want to Be a Sushi Snob?”, offers this advice on eating sushi outside Japan:
The second thing to remember about dealing with sushi snobs in the United States is that there are no good sushi restaurants in the entire country. Nope. None. Zip. Nada. They don’t […]

A recent study suggests that the meat-based “Western diet” and the traditional salty “Japanese diet” are equally bad for you in terms of colon cancer — especially if you are a woman.
Researchers in Japan found that among more than 42,000 adults followed for 10 years, women (but not men) with either a Western pattern of […]

Now all the time can be sushi time thanks to the creative genius of Noriko Kuwabara.
Noriko started making sushi clocks back in 1993. At first she thought that a sushi clock would be as easy as buying artificial pieces of sushi and gluing them onto a tray, but she soon found out that it […]

According to Reuters, an Osaka man who claimed that his state benefits do not provide enough money for him to eat properly stormed into a convenience store with a knife and threatened to commit suicide on the spot unless he was provided with sushi.
The man was arrested after spending about an hour in the […]

Are memory hungry applications eating up your computer’s hard disk space?
Why not feed your computer a little sushi?
Each of the pieces of sushi in the photograph is actually an external storage device (128MB or 32MB) that plugs into a computer’s USB port.
Pieces can be purchased individually for 8,200 yen for the 128MB pieces […]

Now I know there are probably some of you out there who might suspect that I have a sushi fixation. Actually, however, there are just so many zany sushi-based products out on the market that it is hard to keep up with all of them.
There are the latest additions to the JAPUNDIT sushi gallery — […]

Here’s a gift idea that is sure to make this Valentine’s Data a really unforgettable one for you and that special some one in your life.
Chocolate sushi!

Unlike Twinkie sushi, which is merely a reasonable facsimile of a sushi roll, Suedy’s Koo-ki Sushi is so realistic, it’s hard to tell the difference from the real […]