Going Out For Sushi

[gfpagan]

We're going out for sushi tonight for the first time since I've gone gluten free. I'm hoping it will be a good experience as we don't go very often.

I feel prepared for what to order and what not to order and I'm looking forward to trying some new things that I haven't tried before because I got in the habit of having the same few I know I like.

[sarahzona]

YUM I love sushi!!!!!! Most places carry gluten-free soy sauce which is awesome!

Sarah

[Lisa]

If my memory is correct, the octopus is not gluten free and all (most) imitation crab meat is not gluten free.

[ChemistMama]

If my memory is correct, the octopus is not gluten free and all (most) imitation crab meat is not gluten free.

See this thread:

https://www.celiac.com/gluten-free/lofivers...php/t11811.html

No miso soup or tempura (obviously). Stay away from eel, I believe it's the freshwater one that has the sweet sauce which contains soy sauce. Bring your own soy sauce, of course!

I'd never heard about octopus being non-gluten-free. Stay away from futomaki, the rolls with lots of items...the tamago (egg) and kampyo (gourd) are both prepared with soy sauce. I love sashimi or a dish called chirashi-sushi, which is a big bowl of raw fish on top of sushi rice. Yum!

[ChemistMama]

OOps, I forgot to add the link to the Japanese celiac dining card!

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[Lisa]

Yup, memory not so good. It's the eel, not the octopus. Who would eat either, yuck.

[miles2go]

It seems that life was a little easier regarding sushi restaurants just a decade or so ago, and this may be more of a regional thing, but's it's definitely at both ends of the east coast here in the states. Now when I see sushi on the menu, it isn't always a Japanese restaurant that I'm sitting in. This makes for some disasters, but also for some serendipity. For instance a soup that I ordered in one of these fusion restaurants in Florida, which would normally not contain any soy sauce because it was a Thai soup and fish sauce is more commonly used was soy sauced to pieces. OTOH, one of the Thai restaurants that I frequent here in Maine serves decent sushi that seems to have the usual restrictions for celiacs, but since it's a Thai restaurant and they use rice flour in everything, I can have their tempura, because it and everything that gets deep-fried is rice flour-based. Combine that with the language barrier that sometimes crops up and you've got a real shot in the dark.

Hope you had a good experience, gfpagan!

Margaret