Originally Posted by LapLap;34983981
If you’re brave you can ord[color=#000000
er 茎わさび巻 (kuki wasabi maki) which is translated as wasabi stem roll.
Advised to order something with omelet (tamagoyaki) at the same time so that you can use it to recover from the experience.[/color]
Not sure if it counts as brave or stupid, but I saw wasabi maki on the menu at a sushi place in Kanazawa yesterday and ordered it.
OMG!!! For a brief moment, I felt like I was going to choke and thought of WW1 soldiers killed by Germans in their trenches with chlorine gas. But the spiceness disappeared on its own almost as quickly as it appeared, there was no need to eat anything else to wash it down.
Not sure how eating wasabi with fatty fish is supposed to help - to me, the worst part was the irritation of the respiratory tract by the pungent smell, not the spicy taste itself. Seems just like an excuse to eat some otoro to me
They served me 6 pieces of wasabi maki, I ate two and called it quits. I am not doing a wasabi tour in the foreseeable future!
However, the question on how my "wasabi" powder back home compares to real wasabi remains, so I bought both a wasabi root and a wasabi paste without horseradish in the basement of the M'ZA department store in Kanazawa, and I look forward to comparing the taste when I get back home!
(also bought a can of spam as a souvenir - didn't realize it was a real product!)