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Food to Dip in Soy Sause and Wasabi?

chrisalbon — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:37:41 -0800

I like Soy Sauce with Wasabi, but sushi is expensive. What quick and simply meals can I have that I can eat with Soy+Wasabi? I have really been enjoying the spicy/salty taste of soy sauce with Wasabi. However, buying sushi everyday is way, way beyond my budget.

What dirt simple/cheap meals can I make and enjoy with soy sauce and wasabi?

Obsessed with the Wasabi

peewinkle — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:59:32 -0800

Help me cure my Wasabi craving! A few years ago, I was introduced to Wasabi. After being a lifelong fan of anything hot and spicy, unfortunately, years of self-abuse have rendered my stomach useless for digesting any sort of solid (capsaicin) pepper. I still am able to digest several hot sauces, most likely due to the fact that vinegar is used in their preparation, but not peppers, either cooked or raw.

Enter Wasabi. I love it. Help me find it! FYI I also cannot easily digest the popular wasabi-flavored peas, which to my understanding really has a much higher percentage of mustard and horseradish than Wasabi anyways. (Legumes and I do not mix, except for peanuts).

My google-fu fails me and I have looked on the Mefi.

What I am looking for:

1) Wasabi-flavored cashews (again, mustard and horseradish are the main seasoning agents, but HOLY MOLY are they good).

2) Wasabi chips. Not the flavored chips (which are decent and I can easily find on the internet) but the actual 'chips' that are composed from the leaf of the plant, (sometimes battered) and then deep fried. Once I played a show in San Fransisco with a Japanese noise band, and the singer had a bag of these, that came with it's own Wasabi-hot sauce, much akin to the southern snack of BBQ'd pork rinds that include a bag of hot sauce. These are the priority.

3) I'm not a sushi fan, though I have been eating more of it since I discovered my new found love. The local Sushi restaurant will not sell me any Wasabi that they use in preparation, though they do sell some cheap crap at the counter. "Too dangerous," they say. I have implored them to no avail and I can't afford 15 dollars for takeout every time I get the urge.

4) A recommendation for a good paste (via the internet).

5) Actual Wasabi plants, either cured, fresh, or however they sell them.

Also, if anyone knows of any other Wasabi products, by all means let me know. I am in Racine, Wisconsin, and am willing to travel to either Milwaukee or Chicago. Internet mail-order will work also.

Thank you, my Wasabi loving brothers and sisters.

Too much of a good thing

davejay — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:12:18 -0800

I've made an unfortunate nutritional mistake; am I in for a world of hurt, and is there anything I can do about it? Web surfing and bowls of sashimi don't mix; I wasn't paying attention, and I didn't realize I'd dropped the entire glob of wasabi into my mouth (covered by a lettuce leaf) until I'd already begun chewing and swallowing. A few minutes after somehow managing to successfully avoid throwing up from the intense pain, I realized I now had that glob of wasabi traversing through my system (and I don't feel so good.)

Does anyone out there have some practical advice to minimize the "pain of re-entry" and avoid having an upset stomach/sleepless night all evening, or am I pretty much stuck with it?

Where I can find/order wasabi-flavored potato chips?

aramaic — Fri, 28 May 2004 19:39:37 -0800

Does anyone know where I can find/order wasabi-flavored potato chips? [mi] Some while back, I bought some Calbee brand wasabi flavored chips in Hong Kong. I've never managed to find them since, although I've found other people who want them too -- one of whom has a picture of the bag.

Ideas? I've never managed to find these online -- the closest I can find are wasabi-prawn crisps, which aren't what I'm looking for.