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11/06/2025

Drinking tea makes sushi taste better!

https://sushiuniversity.jp/sushiblog/drinking-tea-makes-sushi-taste-better/

10/06/2025

Why is it important to avoid wearing too much perfume?

Sushi’s delicate flavors rely on subtle scents. Strong perfumes can mask taste. Learn about respect, culture, and etiquette in sushi.

04/06/2025

What is “Suteshari”?

If the chef lacks such training, they may take too much shari and you’ll see them return some to the rice tub. This is called “sute-shari” or “discarded shari”.

03/06/2025

Why are microplastics a problem?

29/05/2025

Most foreign tourists say they have tried takoyaki in Osaka. Since octopus caught in Japanese waters has become expensive, Japan relies on imports from Morocco and Mauritania. Did you know that?

https://sushiuniversity.jp/sushiblog/what-is-takoyaki/

01/05/2025

Looking at Chinese social media as follows, there are many posts about expensive sea urchin (Uni). About 40% of buyers of luxury apartments in Tokyo are Chinese. The surge in sea urchin prices is also suspected to be due to Chinese buyers snapping them up. Is this a leap in thinking?

https://www.xiaohongshu.com/

28/04/2025

Many sushi restaurants use the word “toro salmon” because it sounds delicious.

However, depending on who uses it, it can have various meanings.

https://sushiuniversity.jp/sushiblog/what-is-toro-salmon/

25/04/2025

As of May this year, there are a total of 127 salmon farming sites in Japan's coastal waters and on land. This is approximately 2.4 times the 54 sites recorded in a survey conducted in December 2015.

This is due to rising air freight costs, a weak yen, and increased global demand, which have driven up the price of imported salmon.

However, this business cannot survive unless it can be scaled up like smartphones to reduce costs.

Additionally, these salmon lack reproductive capabilities, so they will not reproduce in rivers or the ocean. However, there are still unknown aspects regarding other potential impacts.

25/04/2025

On the 22nd, the US Department of Health and Human Services and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that they would phase out the use of eight types of synthetic food coloring in US foods.

This will also affect the coloring of farmed fish and processed foods.

22/04/2025

EPA and DHA, which are abundant in blue-backed fish such as Sardines and Pacific saury, are reduced to about 80% of their raw levels when grilled or simmered, and to about 50% when fried in tempura-style dishes. This means that nigiri sushi and sashimi are excellent dishes for obtaining large amounts of EPA and DHA.

21/04/2025

We have added an article about tuna intermediate wholesalers at Toyosu Market. Please take a look.

There are six types of tuna often used for sushi toppings: Pacific and Atlantic bluefin tuna, Southern bluefin tuna, Bigeye Tuna, Yellowfin Tuna, Albacore Tuna.

21/04/2025

We are offering a free “Sushi University” tour for writers living in Tokyo to learn about Edomae sushi. To participate, you must be willing to write an article about Edomae sushi accurately. For more details, please contact us. We look forward to your application.