Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "The Japanese React To American Style Sushi | ASIAN BOSS" video.

  1. Brazilian with japanese ancestry here! How our parents and grandparents explain it (as well as history books and all), when they migrated into Brazil, traditional japanese ingredients just weren't available at all, and the ones that were kinda similar had a different flavor. It's still hard or more expensive to get the right ingredients around here, but of couse back a couple of generations ago it was downright impossible. So, what happens is that the more commonplace japanese restaurants here are not exactly going for authenticity, but more for an adaptation with more brazilian cuisine ingredients. Also, as with what happens with lots of trendy food, they get changed overtime both to fit local tastes, but also to use local ingredients that are just cheaper to get. Why you get some weird stuff like mango, salad ingredients and whatnot on makizushi, which brazilians understand as sushi here. Nigirizushi became popular waaay more recently, with the influx of modern japanese restaurants. I don't remember ever seeing anything close to nigirizushi back in the 80s or 90s. At least not in my hometown. Since my family is japanese descendant, I've been eating makizushi since I was a kid in family gatherings, but the taste is totally different from japanese makizushi. And as a kid, that was what I learned as "sushi"... so when I first got to eat real japanese sushi it was quite a shock. xD Perhaps I'm biased, but for me personally, traditional japanese sushi is just way better. :P I don't hate or mind the deep fried, overstuffed, weird ingredients that you find all over Brazil and other western countries to be fair... they are quite good. But like most people said - it's not what I picture as sushi. Flavors get too mixed, the taste of both fish and rice gets drowned out, so the impression is more of a matsuri type of food rather than sushi. If you live in cities where there is a big concentration of japanese descendants though, nowadays you can find restaurants that goes more towards authenticity - imported ingredients, staff trained in Japan, restaurants that look more like a modern japanese restaurant, fresh fish that is at least closer to the taste of fishes used in Japan. Accordingly, you'l burn a hole in your pocket for the service. xD This isn't too different from how pizza was adopted in Brazil though, and how Italy sees it. In Brazil, the average pizza place has at least some 12+ different toppings, there are sweet toppings, and all sorts of variations... I've heard of some that has over 200 variations. The most common pizza though, has a topping that was probably an attempt to adapt pepperoni pizza here, which also isn't traditional, but you know. But it isn't pepperoni... it's similar, but not the same.
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