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they interviewed the chef who invented california roll. He put the rice on the outside because his customers found seaweed too scary.
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I was reading about this earlier today, sushi in the States is assembled rice-side-out because back in the day, Americans would peel off the nori before eating because seaweed was too scary for them. Absurd.
The lack of spices in Japanese food suggests Japanese are the white people of Asia
I'm sorry have you been to Japanese street food people before? Japanese street food make western top chefs look like a joke and at extremely cheap prices. They're at a technical level that's just way higher than elsewhere because of some sort of cultural obsession with it and a loooooot of street chefs who hyper specialised in one extremely specific thing for 30 years and became literal gods at it.