students get opportunity to sample choice cuisine
tickets to the Japanese
Student Organization’s
Sushi Night sell out
By Peter Breaden
Oregon Daily Emerald
Juan-Carlos Valle, Yumi Mat
suno and Takuya Kuronuma sit at
a table in Riley Hall’s lounge. Valle
trades one of his tako (octopus on
rice) to Kuronuma for a nraguro
(raw tuna on rice).
The Japanese Student Organiza
tion held its second annual Sushi
Night last Friday at Riley Hall. The
$4 tickets sold out quickly to 150
people. Most people found it an
inexpensive opportunity to try
some of Eugene’s choice sushi
from Shoji’s of Eugene.
“That’s my favorite,” Valle said
of the tuna. Valle eats sushi “as of
ten as he can.”
The Sushi Night spread is pretty
good, Matsuno said.
The event bri ngs together Japan
ese students and introduces sushi
to people who have a limited un
derstanding of Japanese culture,
said Ryoko Sanai, JSO president.
“Sushi is our cultural food, and
many students miss sushi," JSO
member Takeru Yoshida said.
Despite the 350 Japanese stu
dents on campus, sometimes peo
ple have trouble connecting with
each other, she said.
“We have trouble because many
students don’t care about commu
nity,” Sanai said. JSO wants to
promote Japanese culture, not just
its commercial aspects.
JSO had more requests for tick
ets than it was able to fill, Yoshida
said. This year’s turnout almost
doubled last year’s attendance be
cause of advertising, Yoshida said.
Last year we failed to advertise
it,” he said. “This year we tried to
advertise more and still some stu
dents couldn’t get tickets. ”
JSO served nine different types
of sushi that come in two different
styles — ngiri and rolls.
The nigiri are packed rice with
some type of raw seafood on top.
The nigiri included tako (octo
pus), maguro (tuna), ebi (shrimp)
and shake (salmon). The maguro
and shake are a vibrant red and or
ange color compared to the pink
ish tako and ebi.
The rolls are kelp wrapped
around rice and vegetables. For
example, the cucumber rolls were
exactly what they sounded like,
and a little boring compared to fu
tomaki, a veggie roll with more fla
vor. The California roll was pretty
popular, though not in Japan, Mat
sunosaid.
“I'd never heard of it,’’she said.
The word sushi doesn’t mean
raw fish, according to JSO. Sushi
means “vinegared rice,” which is a
key part of its recipe.
The first record of preserving
fish was in China, almost 2000
years ago, when the fish was salted
to keep longer. Currently, the fish
are treated with vinegar and can
only be kept one night.
Sushi is served in a special
arrangement that begins with a
green tea, odebana. The sushi is
served with soy sauce, thin-sliced
ginger and the bright green, zesty
wasabi.
The quality of Shoji’s sushi is
close to authentic Japanese sushi,
Yoshida said. It is also the best that
Eugene has to offer.
“Sushi is an expensive food so
we wanted to have sushi at an af
fordable price,” Sanai said.
Catharine KeruUill/F.meraUl
Sushi etiquette
It’s OK to eat it with your fingers.
For nigiri (rice with raw seafood),
don’t put murasaW (soy sauce) on
rice.
Don’t ask the price if it’s not on the
menu
Health effects
Some raw fish can cure cold sores.
Squid reduces cholesterol.
Speaking of sushi
odebana: green tea agari: green tea
at the end of the meal
gari: thin-sliced ginger
shari: rice
Catharine Kendall/Emerald
Students gather
in Riley Hall Fri
day evening to
enjoy sushi
(above).
Inside the Inter
national Hall
(left), students
line up to get
their share of a
delicious meal
at a low price.
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