Did America ruin Sushi? 🍣 

Authenticity vs Innovation and creativity, there's room for both in this world.

I live in a 2nd tier US city and I can find Sushi that looks and tastes almost exactly what I found in Japan. The stuff found in Grocery Stores in the US is very similar to the Sushi you find in Konbini Stores. The Futomaki is probably the most similar to what American and Canadian Sushi Rolls look like. It is a complex roll that often has several ingredients. There are also large regional variants of Sushi, like in Kansai they have Box Pressed Sushi, which is different from the Nigiri.

A key difference is most Japanese restaurants are not run by Japanese and their staff has not even been propertly trained in Japan or just by Japanese chefs.

Both are good to be honest. I love being able to eat sushi with salmon and avocado

In my country , Indonesia , people also adopted American style sushi to convince people that skeptic about raw fish so they can enjoy sushi without have to be stucked on skepticism Although I personally prefer traditional style sushi myself

Whenever a country adapts cuisine from somewhere else there will always be changes added to better suit their palate. Some would even argue American sushi is better but it's just preferences.

Truly one of the best RU-vid channels out there!

There is plenty of authentic sushi in the US.

日本もインドのカレーとか中華料理をアレンジしたりしてるから、その国にあった食べ方がいいよね

In Brazil it's the same thing... We use so many different things in the sushi you won't believe it lol!

To be fair, Japanese also make foreign foods a bit different too. Mayonnaise on pizza? However, I agree that American sushi is weird. Japanese sushi tastes so much better.

It would be difficult to replicate the freshness of sushi in Japan; however, local fish farms might be able to close the gap.

In Indonesia, (I think) we invented this… volcano sushi. While America use mayo, we use chili mayo hence the word volcano.

eff authenticity if it floats your boat, go for it

Many Thanks Uptan. Your video's always full of great information...!!!

I believe if you go to one of the conveyor belt sushi restaurants even in Japan they do have "Western style" sushi available. I been watching a lot of videos in Japan so I want to go back so badly.

Indians are certainly doing it. 😅 We came up with a dal makhani sushi

Just like Sake that known in America as rice wine , Although Sake distillation process is similiar to beer compared to wine It’s marketed as rice wine so It’s is sounded having a sophistication factor in American alcohol market

I like cream cheese in sushi. I like California roll. I also like traditional Japanese sushi. Both are good!

lmao dude, just wai till you see Brazilian Sushi. We put nutella on it.

Very entertaining video. However; some points on you video is questionable. Japanese sushi is not “fresh“ from the ocean on the same day. Fish is “aged” in order to get more flavor and texture, like a dry aged beef. Tuna goes bad really quickly after it is catch, so that is why they quick freeze the fish in order to preserved it and sell it. In the video, you can see all the Tunas in the fish market has an icy surface on it. That been said. If you catch the fish in the morning and serve it in the same day there is something called rigor mortis. The flesh of the fish become stiff almost chewy, something that Japanese don’t like it on a piece of sashimi (raw piece of fish). If you want the “freshest” , try Korean raw fish. They have fish tanks in front of the restaurant and they serve it right away. Well that is another rabbit hole to explore. One RU-vidr explains the different between Korean and Japanese raw fish very well. His channel name is Off The Menu

I'd love to see a comparison between fried chicken from KFC in Asia and the "secret recipe" in America. People who tried both know there's a world of difference

I remember someone brought a salad with fresh salmon to church and a little while later there where worms popping out of all the meat. Sushi would get a really bad reputation in America if worms started popping out. Not everywhere in America are people located close to the fishing industry unlike an island country like Japan. I have also heard the Wasabi helps kill the worm eggs as does the soy sauce. This along with freshness makes it safe in Japan which would not necessarily be true in America.

The AYCE sushi restaurants in Los Angeles are basically same as Japan's (at least shown in video).

I can imagine they need to send in the Ota faction (from iron chef) to America to set things right

I don't see an issue with it at all. Foods get localized all the time the Japanese themselves are the MASTERS of this, so why they would care is beyond me. I hate a sterile and boring world, and if your sushi has mayo or cream cheese or beef or sweet mango sauce, more power to you! I think there's plenty of room for proper Japanese sushi and the Western and Latin American variants.

Why do people act this way? Both are great in their own ways. “Por que no los dos” applies here

i just REALLY hate mayonnaise, so i end up having to make my own sushi more often than not 🍣

All 3 reasons boil down to one reason: supply chain and logistics. Having fresh, affordable, readily available ingredients makes all the difference. If it's affordable, you need to fill it out with cheaper ingredients. If it's fresh, you don't need to hide the taste with sauces. If it's readily available, you don't need to make it Instagramable, people know what quality ingredients and will judge on taste more than looks. Also, my uncle opened up a sushi restaurant alongside his Chinese restaurant. Honestly, he doesn't care about sushi and has no business trying to serve it. But it's a lucrative market and Americans don't know better.

Uptin where is this tuna auction and restaurant at?

Actually I don’t mind American style sushi although cheeseburger fried rice is more cringe to me

Japan also adapted Indian Curry to suit their palate

It's all about adapting to suit the locals. Similar to how Japanese Yoshoku is Japanese people's interpretation of Western cuisines to appeal to Japanese people.

Eating unfrozen raw fish. That’s why Japan has prevalent stomach cancer.

Sushi is no mayo and others things to fill even with cheese and others things ..., its just for maximize profit with less requirement. Even me dont eat those california roll .... i like just basic sushi ...

America definitely innovated it, Fish and rice is cool but a little bland, but I like how almost any roll is like a perfect flavorful bite and with all the bullshit sauces that they put on them

What food America haven't ruined ?

アメリカの寿司に関しての疑問 日本では人体に有害なので販売禁止 食用禁止になっているアブラソコムツやバラムツですが アメリカではそれらをマグロと呼んで販売しアメリカ在住の人々はそれらを食べているようですが アメリカで食品安全に携わっている人 たちの意見を聞いてみたいです 初期の寿司は東南アジア(タイランド？)にあった生魚の腹に米を詰め込む保存食がルーツと言われています 寿司は時代とともに変化し進化して日本だけでも鯖寿司 押し寿司 ちらし寿司 手巻き寿司 巻き寿司や現在日本で一般的な握り寿司などたくさんの種類があります カリフォルニアロールも寿司の一種としていいと思いますよ

I have no problems with adapting / modifying foods to meet local taste. I think some of the American sushi makes sense…and other American sushi is extremely weird and doesn’t make sense. The cream cheese is way too strong and you end paying a lot of money for sushi where you can’t even taste the expensive ingredient, the raw fish. A little “sauce” (mayo) makes sense but some of them are lathered on in high amounts you have the same problem as cream cheese - you can’t taste the raw fish much and thus paying Mostly for the taste of rice and sauce. My favorites are the traditional Japanese style or when they just add avocado or a cucumber to a traditional sushi roll. The spicy mayo on them is really good so long as they don’t put to much.

America has a good reason for changing sushi though (getting safe raw fish was harder), what's pineapple on pizza's excuse?

Are you out of your mind. Government subsidies to farmers is bad? You don't know the US government spending millions to subsidized the farmers every year

I don't eat sushi. I thought it was nasty anyway, so it doesn't matter.

USA the homeland of Apple and Burger while Japan the homeland of Sony and Sushi

Japan makes Japanese versions of other country’s cuisines. Japanese creamy cheesecake, Starbucks, McDonald’s, Chinese potstickers and baos, Japanese curry, black bean noodles, pastries. Did they ruin Asian or Western foods? No, their versions are quite tasty.

American's didn't ruin sushi. You're supposed to go to actual japanese owned restaurant in US. Like little tokyo in LA downtown is pretty authentic some resturants. Even tokyo centra the super market is better than some restaurants. What next? did american's ruin chinese food? yes they did. LOLs

U.S. LOVES to LOCALIZE sushi for their own taste were Japan hated it.

I like to try original dishes, best way to experience a country's cuisine

I don't think we ruined it number 1. Number 2 we have every God given right to eat whatever we want however we want without appology to anyone. Number 3 I like it better with some real taste lol. I like cream cheese, and all the good stuff and that even includes cheetos on it. I was the head chef at the #11th most popular sushi joint in America before 2010. Just my thoughts. AMERICAN SUSHI IS BETTER IN MY OPPINION. That being said I like any sushi.

I mean, we gave them avocado, so it seems like a fair compromiselol

I still cannot understand what sushi is!

Because Americans don't like raw seafoods. I hate mayo, cream cheese and now siracha on sushi.

You should see Mexican sushi lmao it’s also popular in coastal cities and they make it just as weird and wacky.

Watching from Japan 👀....😂 Eating sushi outside of japan is playing Russian roulette with salmonella..yuk 🤢😝

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I don't like sushi 🍣 here in the usa or in japan, it's just not for me

Cream cheese with sushi was the worst thing I ever ate.

If you want to see a crazier sushi than the US, you gotta go try sushi from Culiacán Sinaloa, México

You should see how Asia country ruin western food 😂

Did America ruin sushi ? Har so ?

pineapples, duh ....

AMERICAN SUSHI FTW.

Canadians created the sushi pizza. If anything they ruined it lol

Sorry but...the US changes and cheapens alot of famous international foods...if its not pizza then its something else like sushi...philedelphia may taste good but its rubbish processed version of cheese as is cheap synthetic jar supermarket mayo... its a crime to stuff and drizzle either on sushi... they are trying very hard to push philedelphia in my european country but its not working...the crap flavoured cream is constsntly on heavy discount + 2for 1 sales...and its thankfuly not selling, not moving! when we go to sushi places around the world we stress and remind please no mayo no thst cheese stuff...once the sushi chef came to say hello and respect for appreciating sushi and maki for what it should be.

No. To answer your question..No. Thats like asking if we ruined pizza or tacos. We made it better.

america did NOT ruin sushi. American sushi is different from Japanese sushi. Doesn't mean its better or worse.