On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 19:57:17 -0400, "kilikini"
<kilikini1@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote:

>Nope, sushi only means rice and seaweed. Sashimi indicates raw fish. You
>can have cooked chicken sushi, sarimi sushi (that fake crab stuff), cooked
>shrimp sushi, cucumber sushi.......again, all sushi means is rice and
>seaweed. It has NOTHING to do with raw fish. (Although some does contain
>raw fish.)
>
>kili
>
Years ago I lived in the "International Students" dorm and fell in
with the Asian crowd (my roommate was Korean). There were a few
Americans, but mostly Koreans and Japanese (no Chinese, strangely).

One summer, we decided to have a picnic. The Americans students were
going to make hotdogs and hamburgers, the Koreans- bulgogi and
cucumber kimchi, and the Japanese were going to make sushi. Those of
us with cars did the shopping and put the ingredients in the
refrigerator. Some had to do preparations the night before.

The day of the picnic, the hotdogs were nowhere to be found. It
turns out the Japanese students put them in the sushi! It was strange
to us but not to them. I passed on it.

Two stories for the price of one...
Just as weird, another American student and I enrolled in Chinese
cooking lessons at a (different) local college. At the first meeting
the instructor gave us an introductory lecture before the actual
cooking. She went on and on about the importance of ingredients in
Chinese cooking, how terrible American rice was, blah blah blah, among
other things. Then, when it was time to cook, fried rice was the
first dish. The meat? Hot dogs! Apparently to her, it was just
another sausage. We quit after that lesson and got our money back :)