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amado, come to think of it, Fujian province does do a similar dish, with thin strips of raw fish, mixed with shredded ginger, chilli and parsley, with a dressing of lime juice and a bit of oil and soy. And most Filipino-Chinese are of Fujian ancestry...

We certainly have the calamansi lime - it's found all over SE Asia, and we love its juice =)

I have never tried sushi although I could easily get it - both at the markets nearby which have 'sushi chefs' doing nothing but making it all day plus a brand new Japanese restaurant two miles away which looks good and hear the sushi is good quality but .... I have to admit I have a lot of hesitation ... I grew up having other Japanese food which I have always liked, but never tried the sushi or sashimi.

You can try some of the vegetarian sushi, that can be tasty too.

Thanks,Terry, I will check it out!

I've never had real wasabi, does it taste any different than the green-coloured horseradish that most of the places I frequent serve?

And what's the difference between sushi and sashimi?

p.s. Thanks a lot guys, for the past two days I've had a craving for tuna and salmon.. =0)

Sashimi is a piece of fish about 2inches long by 1.5 inches wide? My measurements may be off. It's put on top of the rice. What we call sushi here is a roll, it has rice, then kelp, then rice, then a piece of the fish and say, cucumbers etc.. the filling. So in "sushi" you don't get a lot of the fish. But in sashimi you do get a lot more of the fish. I love sashimi. It melts in your mouth. I can't even imagine what it must taste like in a high-end restaurant (the most expensive place I've been taken to was 40 bucks a person I think) or in Japan.

I am predicting a moniker change here.

I am waiting to see 'Orthodox Pyrohy' turn into 'Orthodox Sashimi'!!!

Alice

Nah - not his moniker look at what is written under his moniker - now reads


And have you noticed his location ???

So, my maternal great-grandparent was from Fujian? I have relatives who are 1/2 and 1/4 Chinese, whose ancestors came later in the first part of the 20th century.

Some Filipinos living in the small islands North are culturally closer to the native Taiwanese living in the islands South of Formosa.

Did you know that ex-President Corazon Aquino's maiden name is Cojuangco, the hispanized Chinese "Co Huang Co?" (or "Co Huang Kuo?").

The Philippines might have the largest number of people of Chinese ancestry, outside of Singapore!

Amado

Not quite! Sashimi refers to the raw fish eaten on its own, in small slices, dipped into soy sauce. Sushi refers to the raw fish + rice combination with fish/stuff atop of vinagered rice. The most common is Temaki Sushi, which is a large 2"-3" slice of fish/stuff atop a smaller cigar-shape (cevapcici) of rice shaped by hand. An older and rarer version is Osaka Sushi, where rice and fish are pressed into a mould and the the resulting pressed mass then sliced into rectangles, rather like slices of pound cake (see here [pref.osaka.jp]

Often also called 'Sushi', but strictly speaking a mistake, is 'Maki', which is any sort of seaweed roll encasing rice and various fillings.

The wiki article on Sushi [en.wikipedia.org] is quite helpful.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if your Chinese ancestors came from Fujian. The way the Filipinos do Bihon is very much a Fujian style!

Oh yes, Chinese take great delight in pointing out that in Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and much of SE Asia, many of heads of state and political figures who do not identify as Chinese, are of Chinese ancestry. Taksin, the recently deposed Prime Minister, is of Teochew descent. The Marcoses too, if I recall correctly, as Imelda Marcos did visit her relatives in her ancestral village in Fujian. Abdullah Badawi, current Prime Minister of Malaysia, has also visited his relatives in Hainan province. The list goes on. There's a reason the Chinese were once nicknamed 'the Jews of Asia'!

I have no doubt there are more people of Chinese descent in the Philippines than in Singapore. Singapore is a nation-state of only 4 million people! On the other hand, the Chinese here are the majority and still identify culturally and ethnically as Chinese (though of the diaspora), while those in the Philippines appear to have intermarried and assimilated to a far greater extent.