Huh. My toddler is at a stage where I can promise her anything at all in exchange for her eating another bite of food.
âEat another piece of liver and daddy will do a dance.â
âIf you eat that last piece of pasta, daddy will touch his nose.â
âIf you eat another cucumber slice, daddy will eat a cucumber slice.â
âIf you have one more piece of fish, you can have another piece of fish.â
Somehow, all of these workâŚ
I hate to be a party-pooper, but with all the parents of young children who read this site, I have to say:
Be very careful if your young child puts an entire piece of maki (the ones that are rolled in a nori sheet and then cut into circles) in their mouth at one time. It is a learned skill to bite through the nori sufficiently while chewing with a full mouth, and I personally have witnessed at least a half-dozen times when the nori unwraps and gets part-way down the throat of a preschooler and ends up closing off the kidâs air supply. At that point, itâs flat and slick so the Heimlich technique isnât always effective. Use a finger and sweep the back of the mouth instead.
The little dude and I have the same relationship to how sushi should be served: deep-fried with chips.
Nori and rice is an interesting beast, slick and sticky at the same time. I had a hand roll in my twenties that almost glued my mouth shut.
Decades ago I had a similar experience with my parents. I was willing to try sushi and they were gagging and disgusted by it. I was a young teen at the time. As an adult Iâd take my parents to a sushi restaurant, and would have to explain to my father that, while there was nothing wrong with asking for a fork, itâs impolite to take the shrimp off the top and leave the rice.
(âŚdo you have any HP sauce? 
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At any age, the only thing giving me $10 might have achieved was keeping me from making my, âYum, sushiâ face.
Owning her brother, #LikeAGirl.
Two weeksâ allowance for a few secondsâ work? The kidâs a fool.
I suspect lil sister is in for beating later onâŚ
Dear God, if my parents gave me access to sushi, Iâd have bankrupted them.
I once witnessed a ten-year-oldâs first sushi. The kid had no reservations at all; this is what the adults were eating, so this is what he wanted as well.
It was something wonderful to watch. Before his first piece of tuna sashimi, his mom said âyou know the tuna we have at home? Thatâs not tuna; all the life has gone out of it. This is tuna.â
He took his first bite, and as his eyes went wide, he gobbled the rest. âThatâs so gooooood! Why do we always cook our fish?â
A tough question to answer.
I have to agree with Sam. Plus you have to admire him for sticking to his principles and not selling out.
Girls beats Boy and a makes more! Good start!
That is amazing. And also why I have to limit myself to twice a year ($45 lunch, what!?)
The little sister is going to be more fun to take out on a date when she grows up. Good for her!
I will preface this comment by saying that I hate food snobs (I believe they like to be called âfoodiesâ?) but if thereâs one thing that differentiates good sushi from bad itâs the nori. If you buy anything made in Japan (dont be tricked by the packaging) youâll likely have a way better end product. The Japanese stuff is typically much thinner than nori made anywhere else. Itâs supposed to break apart effortlessly when crunched sideways.
The other thing that comes into play is that in Japan most of the time youâre eating sushi itâs the nigiri style. Sushi shops usually make maki as well but theyâre made on the spot to order so the nori sheet is still dry and crispy.
You are a magnificent genius.
I used to live up the road from a 120 yen sushi place. Any plate, 120 yen (basically a buck twenty) and they had everything including whack shit that would made adults squirm like this kid.
Squilla:
Sea Urchin:
Octopus Sucker:
