I got this at a local (american) sushi place. It was just cold plain (not marinated or cooked) tofu in huge pieces wrapped in a roll. It was…not good.
But before I leave a review, I'm wondering if this is an actual traditional Japanese sushi dish, or if this place just made something up. At another restaurant, I once had "spicy tofu" roll that was marinated and cooked and really good, so I was super let down by this place.
Edit: I also like inarizushi obviously, which is a real thing, though that's a whole different kettle of…tofu lol.
by owlaholic68
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It’s definitely not mainstream Japanese sushi but tofumakizushi does exist. Whether this is a good or even coherent example of that is not really something I or anyone else could tell you from a photo.
Nope! Probably invented so that vegetarians have something more to order than just kappa and oshinko maki.
This looks like the restaurant’s misguided attempt at making a menu item for vegetarian/vegan guests. The classic just replace the meat with tofu without giving a damn about the flavor or texture situation. There are so many other more creative and flavorful ingredients you could use to make vegetarian sushi…using unflavored, uncooked tofu like this is just a plain lazy afterthought.
On the relatively rare occasions that block tofu shows up in sushi in Japan, it’s almost always as one component of a futo-maki, and not just on its own. It’s also usually seasoned or flavored or deep fried beforehand.
Inarizushi on the other hand is a common type of sushi that uses fried then simmered pocket tofu as the outer wrapping for the rice.
tofu in sushi is often sweet fried tofu, so plain tofu isn’t that common but not unheard of. inari tofu is quite tasty and i have to keep myself from buying them because i literally inhale them
edit: this seems like the wrong rice for sushi.. are you certain it was a japanese restaurant and not viet japanese style sushi?
Why don’t they just make Inarizushi
Hahahaha, it looks like a troll or someone who has no idea what they are doing and tried to make an on the fly roll.
If you are going to give them a bad review for serving “non traditional Japanese” dishes, you a going to have to pan every restaurant that serves California roll.