SushiAirways in Singapore

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By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Monday 4 March 2013

Air travel and sushi are two things we love, but don’t necessarily picture together. So it’s pretty neat that SushiAirways boldly mashes up both. Its interiors are playfully modeled after the Douglas DC-3, an American fixed-wing aircraft that was big in the 1930s, while Jap cuisine is served by staff dressed in matching uniforms reminiscent [...]

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Hilarious informative short film about sushi

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By Low Lai Chow in Video on Saturday 1 September 2012

If Jiro Dreams of Sushi, the documentary film that has been making waves in the arthouse film circuit of late, had a companion piece to open the film, it would be this. In this 8-min short featuring Japanese comedy troupe The Rahmens, sushi trivia, etiquette and traditions are hilariously jumbled with outright fiction and exaggerated [...]

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Sushiritto: a delicious sushi/burrito mashup

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By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Tuesday 21 August 2012

Sushi? Burritos? If you’re living in California, working through this conundrum is probably engrained into your weekly routine. But thanks to one chef in San Francisco who just didn’t want to have to make that choice, now you don’t have to either. Sushiritto is the ultimate mash-up of burritos and sushi, where Latin flavors mingle with Asian ingredients.

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Sushi Bazooka: lets you make your own sushi in a hurry

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By Samantha Dalrymple in New Products on Friday 27 July 2012

Sushi is something that most people love (including me), but one problem is that it’s not cheap ordering it in restaurants. For those craving sushi and not wanting to spend so much, this product is for you. Sushezi is a product that replicates a bazooka and it solves our problem of making sushi at home. [...]

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Tobacco-rolling inspired machine invented to roll sushi

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By The Urban Grocer in New Trends on Wednesday 4 July 2012

The Japanese have been eating sushi since the 1800s but the Germans have now made it efficient. From German design firm osko + deichmann comes this fantastic tobacco-rolling inspired machine that makes mastering your own Maki a whole lot simpler. Forget the bamboo mat and take to the machine where rice, fish, and seaweed are [...]

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Designer sushi with lasercut seaweed

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By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Wednesday 30 May 2012

The Japanese are so evolved, they’ve figured out nearly everything to an art. We thought these cute little sushi couldn’t probably look any cuter. We were wrong. After the the 2011 tsunami, sales of Japanese nori (seaweed) dropped, and ad agency, I&S BBDO, decided to roll out – ha, couldn’t resist – a design nori series of gorgeously patterned laser-cut seaweed sheets.

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The World’s most expensive sushi

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By Michelle Wilding in New Food and Packaging on Thursday 8 July 2010

Gold-laced sushi is only appropriate for people whom live large and lavish lifestyles. Made by ambitious Filipino chef Angelito Araneta Jr, our favourite seaweed treat comes wrapped in a thin 24-carat gold leaf and affluently encrusted with .20-carat African diamonds on top. It also comes with a $2700 price tag, making it the world’s most [...]

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Sooshi

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By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Wednesday 4 November 2009

Not a fan of sushi? Then check out Sooshi — a new sushi-style treat from New Zealand Natural ice cream. Though it may look a lot like your neighborhood rainbow roll, these sweet snacks are made purely of real fruit and ice cream. Instead of the outside ‘nori’ sheet, Sooshi sports a green apple flavored [...]

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