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Sushi Prepared on a Printer
Ant writes " The New York Times talks about Homaro Cantu's maki, it looks a lot like the sushi rolls served at other upscale restaurants: pristine, coin-size disks stuffed with lumps of fresh crab and rice and wrapped in shiny nori. They also taste like sushi, deliciously fishy and seaweedy. But the sushi made by Mr. Cantu, the 28-year-old executive chef at Moto in Chicago, often contains no fish. It is prepared on a Canon i560 inkjet printer rather than a cutting board. He prints images of maki on pieces of edible paper made of soybeans and cornstarch, using organic, food-based inks of his own concoction. Then, Homaro flavors the back of the paper, which is ordinarily used to put images onto birthday cakes, with powdered soy and seaweed seasonings."
Try the soylent green. Its delicious.
But where is the eatable electronic ink paper! Ohh I need to go print a TPS report then feed it to my boss - bbl.
I was informed a while ago (to my surprise) that Sushi doesn't necessarily contain fish. I now understand that Sushi relates to the seasoning of rice and the style of presentation - typically with Nori (seaweed).
[Tell me if I'm wrong and you're the CEO of Sony or similar!]
It tastes like toner.
Domo Arigato Mr.Homaro
Yeah, all obes people should be forced to eat their words!
Sushi doesn't taste fishy - or at least good sushi doesn't.
Does he also print the nutritional information on the back as well?
Holy crap! I knew that they made it out of old paper. Tesco (UK's WalMart) make everything taste of paper. Now I know.
Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules.
and although the place sounds interesting, it's way too outside the budget I need for a feeding.
here's an review I found that sums it up:
[ ]For the past decade restaurants have gone to great lengths--showy food, exposed kitchens, gimmicky menus--to add drama to their dining rooms. But when the theatrics overshadow the food, a restaurant and its diners are in trouble. At Market District newcomer MOTO, the show starts with waitstaff dressed in black lab coats, continues with aromatherapeutic flatware threaded with sprigs of fresh herbs (listed as a course on the menu!), and hits a peak when servers approach the table with six-inch syringes to inject a single rice ball with sweet-and-sour sauce. And if you think Charlie Trotter's servings are small, wait till you see what chef Homaro Cantu calls a salad: a teaspoon of tiny spinach gelatin cubes and another of frisee. A bite-size portion of scallops came sitting atop a plastic box (constructed by Cantu himself), where a small but tasty filet of black bass was steaming in "Pacific Oceanic products" (water FedExed in from the Pacific). If the minuscule portions of white-truffle ice-cream spaghetti and smoked-watermelon soup tasted good I'd be more forgiving, but they didn't. It goes on like this through the 13th course--you'll wish you'd opted for the five- or seven-course meal or, evenbetter, that you'd gone next door to Folia instead. Moto is at 945 W. Fulton, 312-491-0058.
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
The word Sushi, to my understanding, is derived from the words su (vinegar) and meshi (rice).
The birth of sushi as we know it, was to use this vinegar rice to wrap fish in it, to conserve the fish, sometimes for months!
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Yep, sushi is cold rice flavoured with vinegar and sugar. This food can be used in various ways, and rolls are just one variation.
More common at home is to make "shirashizushi" - basically a large bowl with the rice and a bunch of different toppings spread out on top. Another variation is to have rice and toppings in bowls, then take a piece of nori (pressed seaweed) and add some sushi and whatever toppings you like, then roll up and eat - sort of the same way you make tacos.
But yes, as it happens, sashimi tends to go very well with sushi.
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
Great, so now we can actually fax them food.
Let's see - vast drone-like armies of workers ... corporate marauders ... increased terrorism ... now pictures of food instead of food. If DeNiro shows up to fix my toilet I'm moving to Canada.
Anyone sharing a desk with their neighbor in the next cube yet?
Contrast with Surstromming, which is fish allowed to ferment in the can to preserve itself. Thank you, Sweden, for one-upping Norway. Lutefisk wasn't disgusting enough.
If it were an HP printer when the seaweed part of the cartridge expired youd have to replace the WHOLE cartridge and it would cost $5000 dollars, and expire when there is still 15% sushi left!
Our intelligent designer has never created an animal that we couldn't improve by strapping a bomb to it.
Look, it's not sushi, if you RTFA you'll see it's a novelty item printed with sushi designs on the outside -- it's not supposed to even look like sushi.
That apart, the point about Moto's is that it doesn't serve actual food, it serves insanely tiny and bizarre objets d'art in Kubrik-esque surroundings. You don't go there to eat, you go there to witness the most ridiculous restaurant ever, and boy do they deliver! Single strand of spaghetti? You can get that. Silver teaspoon containing tiny dab of meat-flavored ice cream? You can get that (but can't keep the teaspoon). Giant pile of pretention, drenched with arrogance, topped with a fundamental inability to understand cookery and garnished with a four-digit bill? They have that, too -- actually, it's compulsory.
It's still part of what makes Chicago great, though.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
Lutefisk is actually pretty good. I never liked it the first few years I lived in Norway, but now I look forward to it. It also depends where I get it - Stortorvet Gjestiveri is good I think, but other places I've had tried didn't taste as good. Of course, you need enough of the bacon fat poured on top to make it taste good :-)
good news: You could actually print a picture of Natalie Portman that tastes like hot grits.
bad news: someone could slip a pic of the goatse guy into your sandwich when you're not looking.
do not read this line twice.
And we wonder why people crash planes into our buildings.
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You know, oblivion keeps looking better every day.
"We'll be the first restaurant on planet Earth to use a class IV laser to cook food"
Anyone got a link to the planet that already does this?
You are posting on /. hence you can't have a girlfriend let alone a hot asian one.
I think by 'hot japanese girlfriend' he meant his computer. Maybe it's overclocked?
The libertarian solution to the failures of capitalism is to apply more capitalism til the failures are fixed.
Soylent Sushi is PAPER!
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
When willl they learn that sushi is a art form, not to be duplicated by a machiene.
Actually, the technology has existed for a few years now to do this with icing on cakes. I was able to put the stanza of a poem on my groom's cake by giving them a pdf file of the poem stanza text and a graphic. They then printed the icing out onto the cake. It was quite neat and did a very good job, though naturally you still neat artistic skill for any of the frilly edges and 3D creations. ;-) !
And, before anyone asks, the poem had nothing to do with Nantucket
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