I always thought wild salmon was much riskier than farmed. At least in Japan it used it be

Fish farming is definitely a very good thing. I think people are a bit icky about salmon though because there have been several reports about unsafe/unethical farming practices in regards to salmon (particularly in Norway), but I think that the best we can do is probably just look for asc certifications and things of the sort when we buy fish

This is truly beautiful

Honestly, we mostly eat temaki at home these days, or go to a proper mom&pop sushi place out here in the inaka

I would go. Room temp mascarpone and then cold whipping cream mixing it in an ice bath.

I'm not sure why you priced it so low, as a quick 10 minute look at the menu of a place I've never been before shows that the breakdown is much higher than $25 or $30.

Just the 6 rolls alone would be on average ~$4 each, and that's low end imo. These aren't one ingredient rolls with no sauce or extras on top, like the $3.50 rolls at Sushimoto. So I'm using $4 average even tho it could be $5. $24 for 6 cheap rolls is still very good value, but we're leaving out the 6 pieces of nigiri @ $3 a piece (higher than the $2 I had guessed), so that's another $18. Gonna be easily $40+, approaching $50+ with taxes. The closest thing on the menu to the box pictured is the party tray A, which is 5 rolls, and 12 pieces of nigiri, for $46. That's not a bad deal by any means, but it would still leave you paying $50+ for less sushi than OP got. Quality matters though, for all we know the sushi OP ate was ass lol.

Now, I'll absolutely be going to Sushimoto, and likely often if it's good, because those prices are cheap for 2023. But long gone are the days where you could spend $25 bucks at a decent sushi place and get a large quantity of food.

Edit: and yes, I'm from Victoria, born and raised in Vancouver though. My favorite sushi place in Victoria is similarly priced to Sushimoto, and if the quality is anywhere similar, I'm sure Sushimoto is awesome. But even at my local place I couldn't get this much for less than $50 OTD, but a tray of 8 separate rolls (some bigger/better than pictured by OP) is $49.99, and that's a 58pc tray.

Editedit: I'll also say, my favorite sushi roll from my local place was $11.99 ~6 months ago. It's now $16.99. I actually fully believe that you could get the same amount or more than OP in Vancouver for $30 just a year ago. But prices have shot up like crazy from what I'm seeing.

Is that bacon?

At first glance it looked like strawberries.

The beer is where they get you lol. I think 35 bucks is good for better sushi though.

Nicely done, the orange is really cool. But honestly I think it would look better either without the micros on the dirt, more micros with a little more care in their placement, or with something else entirely. I like candied mint leaves here probably.

With the dirt, I find that making it a bit less monotonous in color is good (something like little pebbles of dried meringue and maybe some finely diced candied ginger would be nice here), along with a bit more moisture. A small touch of simple syrup and some oil (I like sesame oil for this dish) would make it clump a little more realistically and it would be a bit less dry in the mouth on its own.

Not meant to be too critical of course, just some tips from one chef to another.

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Yeah I agree I was thinking around $30-50, those rolls look tiny and not many nigiri

i love pistachios, looks interesting!

how did it turn out?

They were crunchy but soft, just how I love them 🥰

In culinary school you get out what you put in really. They teach you the fundamentals but it’s really up to the person to go above and beyond.

Nice looking burger! Love it!

From SeafoodWatch

> AVOID

>Take a pass on Chinook salmon caught in the Puget Sound Chinook fishery, coho salmon caught in the Columbia River above the Bonneville Dam, and Chinook or coho salmon caught on British Columbia’s South Coast.

Emphasis mine.

https://www.seafoodwatch.org/recommendations/search?query=%3Aspecies%3BAtlantic%20salmon

True sushi doesn’t need this amount of sauce

Gimme NOW

Thanks a bunch!

You're capping.

Looks delicious

Sure, just did a quick back of the napkin, and it looked like 40 pieces, divided by two per plate, and most of them at 110yen, then 3 at 220yen + tax and some beer for me. And some mcd on the way home so I won't get hungry.

Alright I confess - i just pulled a number out of my ... ... hat, yeah

recipe? I love everything pistachio

Sushimoto at Holdom Station in Burnaby - I priced this out at about $25-30, as I’m not sure which rolls some of those are so I took some guesses. The nigiri pieces there are about $2.50 and those rolls are about $4-5, none of it is fancy stuff.

Enjoy your new favourite sushi place: Sushimoto

A really high quality place tucked away where nobody knows about it. A truly hidden gem.

I bet that I could price this out at Dragon Sushi in Fairview for under $25, but the pieces would be larger — bordering on unmanageable — and the quality would be lower.

Edit: looks like you’re from Victoria, and while you’d think it’s the same, it’s not. Somehow prices are lower and quality is better here. Maybe you’re just too small of an isolated market and it ends up costing more.

I definitely have friends from Victoria who make an explicit point of getting sushi when they’re in the Lower Mainland.

5 California rolls with different sauces and 6 actual pieces of nigiri and 1 salmon roll. I wouldn’t pay more than 40 for this.