With all due respect, I will have to do more research myself to be
convinced. I am Chinese and have many Japanese friends. This is after all
California where the Japanese first came to America. I have Japanese
friends in Hawaii. Heck, I am going to Japan in a month with exchange
students and a native born Japanese teacher. I can taste the normal
horseradish wasabi, they don't go straight to your nose. May be the "real
ones" that I thought are real are just really good imitations. I know how
difficult it is to make wasabi. I think perhaps you guys take the paragraph:
****
Wasabi powder is available in most grocery stores and is also used in most
sushi restaurants in the U.S. The powder is not real Wasabi at all.
****
As to mean "all" sushi restaurants... Anyway, I am not convinced :-)
At 03:45 PM 6/19/2004, Garth Wood wrote:
>Nope. *All* are fakes, as far as I can tell. If you look at the list of
>ingredients on a typical tube of wasabi paste or can of wasabi powder, its
>major ingredient is always good ol' common garden-variety horseradish, with
>green food colouring added. Edmonton's got a *huge* native Asian community
>with dozens of food stores catering to the various and sundry oriental
>palates, and even the pure Japanese ones do not sell genuine wasabi. It's
>either too volatile, too expensive, too hard to come by, or all three. Oh,
>and by the way, many oriental market suppliers (and a surprising number of
>Japanese) are unaware of how much "fake" wasabi is out there.
// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please
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