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personally I prefer US sushi places, local salmon in particular is an insanely buttery and delectable slice of raw fish, Ive never understood the japanese obsession with rice, it’s fine but salmon is better imo

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What do you mean "Japanese obsession with rice"? That's literally what sushi is (rice with vinegar and sugar). Sushi doesn't have to have fish on it to be sushi, it can have vegetables or fruit or whatever else you want. If your sushi place doesn't make good rice, it's literally a bad sushi place (though it could be a good sashimi place if it has good fish).

It could be because salmon hasn't traditionally been a fish used for sushi in Japan.

https://medium.com/torodex/salmon-sushi-is-not-a-japanese-in...

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