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The California roll is one of the most popular Japanese American dishes we know and love today. While the history and origin of the roll are controversial, it is most commonly credited to sushi chef Hidekazu Tojo. We visit his restaurant, Tojo's, in Vancouver, British Columbia, to hear his story and try out his version of the dish, called the Tojo roll.
Editor’s Note: This video was filmed in May 2019.
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@widyapurnawan1388 3 года назад

the chef be like "you don't want seaweed? ok, I hide it"

@gunterine 3 года назад

the chef be like "you're allergic to seaweed? ok, I hide it"

@beumninteundo5823 3 года назад

Thats what moms do with veggies

@sammiandhyunho9519 3 года назад

The fresh crab sounds a lot better than imitation crab! Sushi in general is just so good

@yogarat6415 3 года назад

I agree

@limesoda9167 3 года назад

People say that because it's "real" that it's better. I've had it and it's really not. Actual crab and imitation crab taste very different and while I love real crab, I think the imitation crab's unique flavor is better suited to sushi. Don't think of it as "imitation crab" and just think of it as its own thing.

@OYG456 3 года назад

We called imitation crab as crab stick. It's actually made of fish meat with crab seasonings lol.

@youngkale2685 3 года назад

Lala Ling i thought it was all gmo stuff lol, i’ve also never had sushi sadly

@limesoda9167 3 года назад

@@youngkale2685 There's nothing wrong with GMO also. While it's not natural, there's nothing about it that makes it bad. They don't put chemicals or anything they just change the DNA to give it more desirable features.

@MarkMunches 3 года назад

Imagine if there was like a food patent on it and every single one sold gave the creator $1. He’d be bigger than Amazon lol

@okk2776 3 года назад

I hope that's a bit sarcastic cause amazon is much bigger than that

@MarkMunches 3 года назад

Ok k it was just an exaggeration for how many people eat California rolls 😅

@Inazarab 3 года назад

Do you mean patent?

@MarkMunches 3 года назад

Inazarab yes, typo lol

@jessicaschoonmaker2073 3 года назад

its not the exact same recipe tho

@blackmarlin3166 3 года назад

The chef had a perfect american accent and japanese accent at the same time.

@bluu_ice6554 3 года назад

At the same dam time???

@pyromasa5252 3 года назад

"If you stop thinking that's it you're finished."That's how an artist mind works in any trade.

@gunterine 3 года назад

what does it mean? If you stop creating you die?

@pyromasa5252 3 года назад

@@gunterine it's a metaphor for if your not using ur brain then why have a brain.

@BaKonSkully 3 года назад

Great big story told me this story lol

@randomfastfoodchain 3 года назад

Same here

@midgetman9247 3 года назад

R.I.P great big story

@Sorcerers_Apprentice 3 года назад

When I was a kid, the first sushi restaurant in my town opened up, they knew people were scared of raw fish. When you opened the menu, one page was clearly labelled as containing cooked ingredients, the other page said it had things with raw ingredients. They also came up with names for dishes like 'ninja roll' and 'samurai roll'. I saw a lot of people eating with knives and forks. Now there are about 4 different sushi restaurants in my town and people are no longer freaked out by it.

@RockstarEater 3 года назад

My dad actually worked in Tokyo Kaikan back in the 70s. Thankfully, a lot of people here in LA have moved beyond CA rolls to eat more real sushi, thanks in large part to restaurants like Sugarfish.

@TheObliterator 3 года назад

“to eat more real sushi”

@RockstarEater 3 года назад

@Evan Dierberg Back in the 90s, Nozawa used to kick customers out of his restaurant if they tried ordering CA rolls and spicy tuna. He popularized the concept of omakase in LA, and other sushi chefs since have taken omakase to a new level during the past decade. That's not considered authentic?

@theroadtocosplayandcomicco5840 3 года назад

@@RockstarEater stupid question but can you fry sushi?

@kkf54353 3 года назад

@Evan Dierberg Damn I didn't know Fukuoka is part of United States.

@ivantheartist 3 года назад

This dedication and love hes made for others made me tear up. Love and food and family is such a magical connection

@botakleong788 3 года назад

Sushi = Original from Japan. California Roll = Invented from Original Sushi from Japan

@UltraGamer9999999999 3 года назад

@Tecumseh Actually, Sushi was developed in Southeast Asia. Narezushi, fermented fish wrapped in sour rice, originated somewhere around the Mekong River before spreading into China and later Japan. However, the modern-day concept of sushi was invented in Japan by Hanaya Yohei sometime around the end of the Edo period in the mid-1800s.

@lukasj.navarro9163 3 года назад

@Tecumseh if you call fermented and rotten rice around raw bland fish before refrigeration existed sushi then yeah, sure, it doesn't originate from Japan. If you call sushi what you eat at a sushi restaurant sushi, then yes, it comes from Japan.

@DBT1007 3 года назад

Sushi = invented by Austronesians from Southeast Asia Archipelago but at that time, they made sashimi. Fermented raw fish.

@DBT1007 3 года назад

@@lukasj.navarro9163 this comment is dumb. Austronesians made fermented raw fish. Any kind of fillet fish, gutted, and then fermented with somekind of vinegar+salt mixture thing. I don't know that mixture. This is the first sashimi. It was invented by the Austronesian sailors of Southeast Asia

@e-o-1085 3 года назад

I first had the California Roll in 1983 in Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach California. In Hawaii in the late 70's early 80's they called it Kani Maki, all with real crab, never imitation.

@StevieWeebieLee 3 года назад

Sounds delicious!

@sergiodjf 2 года назад

He's a genius! Adapting Japanese food to his local market😀👏💯.

@wendyodell356 3 года назад

I shouldn't have watched this! Now I want SUSHI 😋😋😋 Very interesting stories and timelines.

@williamkim5016 3 года назад

I invented the following dishes: The “Santa Monica”: In a white Ikea bowl, arrange upright slices of a Costco white flesh peach in a circular, flower petal configuration around an intact, inverted serving of Trader Joe’s vanilla or blueberry yogurt, and place a Costco madeleine (very small sponge cake) on the side (inside the bowl and on top of some of the “petals” of peach slices.) The shape of the intact serving of yogurt should match the shape of the inverted package of Trader Joe’s yogurt. The Palmdale: one slice of avocado on top of each triangle of Doritos. The Lancaster: Doritos and cottage cheese

@jameshouston4592 3 года назад

Pure gold! I actually laughed out loud

@OmphileCedrick 3 года назад

You’re such a talented chef!

@QueenXKnit 3 года назад

It looks so yummy!! I loveeeeee the Tojo roll for the sesame, it is so good!

@TonySmerychynski 3 года назад

Hard like! My Brother worked with him and my cousin went to school with his kids. Tojo in person I understand is a super happy and innovative person. Thanks for the (as I understand it) honest portrayal. BTW there is many other wicked restaurants in that area. Lived there for 10+ years so if you go back to Fairview in Vancouver I'd be happy to provide you with recommendations.

@BD-zg7is 3 года назад

great video! more like this good job

@txsailor82 3 года назад

This sounds good but why would this lady judge somebody for wanting the California roll? Let’s stop judging and let people be happy.

@xplicitmike 3 года назад

I love sushi, including Cali rolls. They're cheap, clean, and delicious. I'm also a huge fan of imitation crab stick, and can eat it by the pound lol. I don't understand the hate that sushi snobs give to Cali rolls. Sure, I prefer sashimi, give me the fish lol. But Cali rolls are good too.

@p.z.arnott2329 3 года назад

As someone who grew up in California, I question why the usage of imitation crab in the California Roll, instead of dungeness crab, which can be found in California, as well as in Oregon and Washington State.

@ownedpilot4324 3 года назад

Like every master, he does not stop working. Achieving perfection is a non-stop quest.

@DMF 3 года назад

Looks good!

@everyfood6865 3 года назад

wow ~ It looks so delicious~ I want to try it too

@YohanesNiko 3 года назад

Some Japanese sushi chefs are traditionalist & very conservative. I like that Mr. Tojo dares to create many new kind of sushi.

@commentcopbadge6665 3 года назад

The "BC roll" is the one kind of sushi over any other that I would not mind if I died after eating it. I would only mind if it was only one piece I got to eat though. As much as I love a piece of toro sushi, it was dethroned after Tojo's BC roll. Top 5 greatest piece of food I ever put in my mouth.

@venom5809 3 года назад

His food looks amazing. 👍

@aribasohaiya4219 3 года назад

Mouth watering 😋

@okaycomp 3 года назад

6:02 TRUE WORDS MY MAN. KEEP IT UP

@Tv-bj6te 3 года назад

Roll amazing👍

@arundak1293 3 года назад

Please do a Best of the Best California Burrito tour in San Diego. It's close enough to LA and I am sure many people would love to hear about it since it is one of their hallmarks

@ZeckLira 3 года назад

Interesting!

@dorsia4167 3 года назад

Vancouver baby!

@Okoleiman 3 года назад

I went to eat at Tojo’s in 2009 and had the chef’s choice for our dining experience. After that night I half-jokingly committed my finances to support a “Tojo Fund” to ensure I could go back over and over again. It was life changing. Everyone should dine there at least once.

@hidalgoh79 3 года назад

Vancouver, and dining at Tojo’s has been added to list.

@icantthinkofaname15 3 года назад

Weird I was just saying that I wanted sushi last night but haven't tried it. Then this video is on. Lol it's a sign! Lol

@giselleo2735 3 года назад

Your FBI agent is working hard.

@crushedcranium 3 года назад

Great. 🙄 now I need to make a trip northward... 😁

@amandawinters9454 3 года назад

Tojo's sushi really looks good. I mean, I have had tons of different types of sushi, but they don't always look good.

@joeswanson733 2 года назад

tojo: if you stop thinking, that's it you're finished.

@bootylucios4424 3 года назад

This is my favorite sushi roll

@Dimaz42 3 года назад

simple idea like this could occur in the mind of multiple person that don't know each other.. so it's possible that all three of these people were the _inventors_ of this roll

@shinjineesen400 3 года назад

I made a vegetarian version of this, using spinach, egg and cucumber in Washington DC. Crab and avocado optional... It turned out well...

@Fellow_Gamer 8 месяцев назад

Canadians: Ohh no I can't eat seaweed. Chef Tojo: Now this is what I call a pro gamer move.

@marissawilson4644 3 года назад

I like the chef's version better.

@devikabansal8894 3 года назад

I so wish that they let me film a video of a restaurant in my city😬

@rmannayr2129 3 года назад

I LOVE SUSHI!

@rmannayr2129 3 года назад

ROLL IT UP!!!!!!!!

@andrewcutler1380 3 года назад

Imitation crab should really be banned at any self-respecting sushi restaurant. If you want to make a California roll, at least make it with real crab.

@tecumsehzacateco8798 3 года назад

Scarlett Cohan and shouldn’t be as it beening overfished

@andrewcutler1380 3 года назад

@Tecumseh Zacateco if that’s your concern then just stop eating all sushi, including tuna.

@invisiblecurious856 3 года назад

Agree

@loontjet3385 3 года назад

That Chef is funny!

@JuriusDoctor 2 года назад

Please tell me you tried his Omakase while you were there...

@joe_schmoe_420 3 года назад

The inside out nori/rice flip is the tech I hate the texture of nori but love sushi rolls

@roughroadrunner88 3 года назад

Hungry now

@leslieserrano8268 3 года назад

California roll is super good

@UltraGamer9999999999 3 года назад

Yes, but I think a bit Westernized in terms of taste.

@BGRIF- 2 года назад

ITS SO POPULAR

@apurvas3132 3 года назад

0:06 what is that Matt called?

@Vynxey 3 года назад

Matt is a name bruh

@Vynxey 3 года назад

@TC Fenstermaker his/her

@carmelcapricorn7701 3 года назад

That's how California roll. 😎🍵🍱

@kotchapakmaneechote2062 Месяц назад

Ba dum tss

@brackpersian 3 года назад

Herine got a liposuction

@GearZNet 3 года назад

nose job too.

@elitevery7491 3 года назад

How are you guys uploading while in a pandemic? You guysare dedicated!

@isaacp5969 3 года назад

We’ve (Inuit) been eating raw fish and seaweed for a long time 🤔

@israeldelarosa5461 3 года назад

A lot of seaside cultures have man. It's not uncommon. It's just uncommon to more inland nations.

@isaacp5969 3 года назад

@@israeldelarosa5461 I’m talking about in the context of Canada 🤔 He said Canadian people don’t eat raw fish but Inuit are largely proud Canadians and we’ve been eating raw fish before a Japanese chef opened a restaurant.

@mueffe1357 3 года назад

I always thought that California rolls is the one that shaped like a cone. Usually has carrot, cucumber and imitation crabmeat in mayo.

@diannt9583 3 года назад

That would be a hand roll. I've fortunately never seen carrots in a California roll. (And I wish they had real crab.)

@solyfede3275 3 года назад

"I have been coming here longer than you were alive" Weird flex but ok.

@DBT1007 3 года назад

That statement born because the US racism maybe. Some "non-European" people on US receiving bad treatment back then. Even the elders. About Japanese, especially around the WW2 time. Lot of negative sentiment to Japanese people on US. And also the oriental/Chinese race itself. If you have narrow eyes and have light white skin and have different writing system no matter if you're from Korea, Japan, Singapore, etc, aka if you're Chinese race, you will receive bad treatment in US back then. The same goes with the Africans too. This grandpa maybe say this thing as a joke but also born because that past.. Even though he's Japanese, he's already American even long before you born.

@monicamewani2273 3 года назад

I dont think insider even checks its comments Anyone do they?

@ricardoangelrestrepo1798 3 года назад

do the Philadelphia roll

@KOLN555 3 года назад

To appeal to wider audiences he used the time tested strategy of hiding the dog's medication in a piece of cheese.

@krisbrand354 3 года назад

Surely it's not possible to trademark the way he puts sushi together?

@kriss4200 3 года назад

Herrine ♥️

@shastasilverchairsg 3 года назад

*Sushi snobs looking condescendingly down the length of noses at Americanized sushi*

@FingeringThings 3 года назад

Is invented in Vancouver Is named California roll

@harryle4143 3 года назад

And served in Japanese restaurants.

@cutivu002 3 года назад

Next episode philadelphia roll

@abdullahburki5226 3 года назад

I am early and idk what to say

@CesarSandoval024 3 года назад

@6:02

@briarbrand6353 3 года назад

I always take out the imitation crab and throw it away

@VesaJay 3 года назад

If it's not real crab I don't wait it period!!

@angelinazhou9414 3 года назад

Who else is suddenly hungry?

@natekwong3098 3 года назад

Herrine, your voice, the way you talk about food, is pure seduction

@jennglow4647 3 года назад

😃

@nilespeterclemens8328 2 года назад

Lol okay doctor evil, did you also invent the question mark?

@claudiafahey1353 3 года назад

An asian lady at work brought these in for a potluck I tried them at 18 for the very first time....that was 1980

@alf3926 2 месяца назад

Fresh crab? Lol

@crispylemon2983 3 года назад

funny how 10 people can be first

@nocomment1469 3 года назад

Just like those nice girls who claim you were their first after 10 rides

@lockkeythetrickstar5359 3 года назад

@Justin G because they are idiots

@theredspirit2090 3 года назад

STFU no one cares

@cbass81 3 года назад

it should be called a Vancouver Roll then?

@akashmekal1545 3 года назад

What's imitation crab?

@BabyAbood123 3 года назад

After a quick Google search, which you have done before asking such a question, it is basically a type of seafood made of starch and finely pulverised white fish. The white fish is made with different fillers and flavorings like crab flavoring, which is why it tastes like crab even though actually isn't. That's why its called imitation crab.

@diannt9583 3 года назад

Unfortunately it doesn't REALLY taste like crab....

@leslieserrano8268 3 года назад

Who is here before 1k?

@udontsayxxx8622 3 года назад

it was in canada right? you guys like too late for like 29yrs

@AmelieZh 3 года назад

Spinach!????

@stickynorth Месяц назад

Yes even in uncultured and uncouth rural Alberta they are now considered "Low Sushi" aka the trashiest most non-authentic form of sushi you most likely to eat at 3 am at a gas station HOWEVER they are delicious and well loved for a reason... And as a Canadian, I am amused that they are a fusion creation birthed in Vancouver and its apprehension of all thing's ethnic. But joke's on us because it's probably the official food of the city now... And obviously global famous!

@epixentrum 3 года назад

The Sushi Bobby Lee

@acmecomments 3 года назад

omg she so scary looking! why do you have the ring girl doing videos?

@jinjikisano179 3 года назад

French fries California roll Whats else?

@cheesy1nacho924 2 года назад

Idk bruh this just sounds like a different roll it just has crab

@powsinwosin6808 3 года назад

Herrine Ro you are such a babe. What an insane beauty. Unbelievable.

@lmgloss1084 3 года назад

Ily guys

@ronjie 2 года назад

The California roll in the Philippines uses mango instead of avocado...

@tomatenmark2679 3 года назад

I hate rice and Avocados too.

@eatingadventures9614 3 года назад

The most basic roll. Still good tho.

@yourboyfefe5736 3 года назад

Well it’s different so it’s no a Cali roll. Lol wtf

@johnrotten3268 3 года назад

And they fill 90% of california rolls in the grocery store with fake krab meat... I don't get why they can't use real meat. I'd pay 12.00 for a 8 piece crab roll.

@MonarchPoolPlaster 3 года назад

Imitation crab is usually whitefish.

@umalay4205 2 года назад

ဦးအိုက်

@Passionforfoodrecipes 3 года назад

I thought I would *roll* in here with a rice pun... But really, what do we *GRAIN* from that?

@numineeefelton2056 3 года назад

What’s so bad about Cali rolls tho, it’s invented by Japanese ppl anyways. I was raised in Tokyo, I’ve seen traditional sushi rolls which are rolled with seaweed outside, We even eat the rolls as sushi. Cali rolls are invented, and named by Japanese.