Bambi Roll, Anyone? Inside Japan’s Sushi Crisis.
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.25.07 | 4:01 PM ET
How about raw horse meat? Japanese chefs are considering both because, given fishing limits and international demand for sushi, the country can’t get enough tuna. Martin Fackler writes in the New York Times that Japan has fallen into a “national panic,” with news programs devoting much airtime to the crisis. In Japanese sushi bars, the search is on for replacements. “At nicer restaurants, sushi chefs began experimenting with substitutes, from cheaper varieties of fish to terrestrial alternatives and even, heaven forbid, American sushi variations like avocado rolls,” Fackler writes.
One chef believes horse sushi isn’t so bad. “It was soft, easy to bite off, had no smell,” Shigekazu Ozoe says of his experiments. Still, if it comes to that, it truly could be South Korea’s opening for kimchi.
Related on World Hum:
* South Korea Develops ‘Five-Point Kimchi Scale’
* Inside Great Sushi and the World’s Biggest Fish Market
* Japan Unveils Plan for ‘Sushi Police’
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
