I want now.

Dude. The fat stripes on that salmon nigiri... Bet that shit melts in your mouth. I'd wreck this in a heartbeat.

Please tell me thats not homemade. And where can I get it?

get in my belly!!!

How much?

Woaw !

Where, what restaurant ? How many ?

I was wondering that too. Why do I have a feeling this would completely blow my food budget for a week or more.

I’m guessing at least 70-80 if not more

8 rolls but none fried($8-$9 each), 6 sushi (~$15)

Looks lovely

Surely not above 50, at least in Aus.

And that tuna looks so firm, makes me drool.

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I don’t think you have enough ginger there 😂

Only half /s because I love that stuff (and sushi in general)

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best sushi

The tag [I ate] means that it was bought somewhere. And I second that question, where did you get it OP?

OP you need to tell us where and how much!

Yum 🤤

Looks like Sushi Co in London.

42.50 British Pounds.

https://thesushico.co.uk/products/sharing-platters

Nope. 42.50 British pounds.

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Dang that's cheap

That looks good but I am suspicious of sushi that comes with the fake grass in between rows.

Dannnggg. That’s a butt tonne of ginger.

7 rolls and two orders of sashimi is coming out to at least 70 bucks where I live. My trick is to get the discounted "chef's choices" options where they shovel all the sea urchin egg and eel and jellyfish and stuff at me before it goes bad. Jokes on them, those are my favorites...eel sushi is sooooo good. Pretty sure its like grilled or something first though.

GTO

Would that be a bad thing, or am I misinterpreting this comment?

Just under $53 USD. Good deal.

I feel like a fatass just thinking about how i could finish this entire platter myself

It came off weird. Sorry.

Don't be sorry, I'm just slow. 😂

Where

That Salmon definitely looks farmed tho. Some may like it, but that's a pass from me. I'm also wary of any place that covers their sushi in sauces. This just seems off.

Huh, what specifically makes you say so?

Man I’m glad I live in Vancouver. Out of control housing costs, but at least we have the cheapest/best sushi outside of Asia.

£42.50 is about $70CAD, and I bet you could get that for $30-40 here.

Some restaurants use strong sauces for masking less fresh food.

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This.

Am I the only one that can't eat sushi when it's covered in sauces like that? Especially the ones on the rolls that are obviously made with mayonnaise?

I'd eat the six salmon rolls on the edge and then the two pieces of salmon nigiri and tuna. The rest of this plate would go to waste.

This is one serving of sushi

Farmed salmon is preferred for sushi as wild salmon is a high risk for parasites. In fact, salmon sushi wasn't really a thing before the 1980's with the introduction of pellet raised salmon farms.

Aw man, I wanna eat that right now.

The arrangement of this platter is an OCD's dream come true

One of the Tuna nigiri needs to be rotated so the grain runs the same direction.

That's actually a tradition from Japanese sushi restaurants going back about 60 years. The leaves are to keep the different varieties of fish from impacting the flavors of the neighboring slices.

Eel is definitely grilled first.

And just like that, you go broke.

i spy someone with ocd..

Yeah I just looked it up and called my dad about how to prepare it. He used to pull them out of crab traps when I was a kid. Apparently you drive a nail through their brain and then cut two flaps of meat off them before grilling or broiling them. He told me how to cut one up after you nail it to a tree lol

And also made me hungry... well done

The fat stripes on that salmon Tell you that it's farmed salmon. I'm not touching that with a 10-ft pole. The only reason it's even pink is the food coloring they put in the fish food.

Wild salmon. Do not support fish farming

Fish farming is destroying the wild salmon stocks on the British Columbia coast. I am not a hardcore environmentalist. This is just pretty much common knowledge here

Pretty sure I could eat all that by myself...

You know farm raised is safer than wild caught right?

Gimme

Imagine being so confident about something so fucking wrong and stupid.

🙋

That’d be around $60 after tip at my local joint, with the cash discount.

I would devour that

Wow love it!

Somewhat agreed. I am somewhat of a nigiri purist but I do enjoy some combination rolls. The sauce shouldn’t be so much that a dab of soy sauce goes unnoticed — or that I have to forego the soy sauce altogether.

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I'm glad we are at the top of the food chain

Me too, brother, me too...

what's the pile of white stuff on the left? I've gotten that with sushi before and I didn't like it

You are having a laugh if you think you can get all this for $35-$40. That's coming from someone who lives near Vancouver.

7 rolls & 6 pieces of nigiri.

Nigiri ~$2 a piece on the cheap end, so $12.

6 rolls are gonna be at minimum $6 each so that's $36 right there. Plus the edamame is another $5 added on, so $53+ taxes and such, it's gonna be $60+ easily. This is all on the low end, I can't say I've ever seen a sushi place with rolls cheaper than $4.99 and often you're sacrificing quality at that point.

However if you have a sushi place you know of that would allow me to get this much for $40 or less please do share, they'll appreciate how much extra business they get from it.

I want one

Looks like about $35's worth here in Japan

Looks like pickled ginger. Pretty standard sushi condiment, along with the wasabi next to it.

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Farmed salmon is preferred for sushi as wild salmon is a high risk for parasites. In fact, salmon sushi wasn't really a thing before the 1980's with the introduction of pellet raised salmon farms.

Eating sustainably farmed salmon is better for the environment than eating wild salmon. If all of us would eat wild salmon there’d be no wild salmon.

I totally agree, and was looking for this comment. Take something that tastes of freshness, and then mask the flavour. Why pay all that money for something that tastes the same as mayo or BBQ sauce?

Go to kura or sushiro and get it for half that lol

The mayo especially makes it bad for me, there is just no reason a giant glop of mayonnaise should be on a small piece of food like that, it makes my stomach hurt.

And I know its not literally just taking a spoonful of Dukes and plopping it on top, but, it really isn't that far off.

5 California rolls with different sauces and 6 actual pieces of nigiri and 1 salmon roll. I wouldn’t pay more than 40 for this.

Sushimoto at Holdom Station in Burnaby - I priced this out at about $25-30, as I’m not sure which rolls some of those are so I took some guesses. The nigiri pieces there are about $2.50 and those rolls are about $4-5, none of it is fancy stuff.

Enjoy your new favourite sushi place: Sushimoto

A really high quality place tucked away where nobody knows about it. A truly hidden gem.

I bet that I could price this out at Dragon Sushi in Fairview for under $25, but the pieces would be larger — bordering on unmanageable — and the quality would be lower.

Edit: looks like you’re from Victoria, and while you’d think it’s the same, it’s not. Somehow prices are lower and quality is better here. Maybe you’re just too small of an isolated market and it ends up costing more.

I definitely have friends from Victoria who make an explicit point of getting sushi when they’re in the Lower Mainland.

Sure, just did a quick back of the napkin, and it looked like 40 pieces, divided by two per plate, and most of them at 110yen, then 3 at 220yen + tax and some beer for me. And some mcd on the way home so I won't get hungry.

Alright I confess - i just pulled a number out of my ... ... hat, yeah

You're capping.

Gimme NOW

True sushi doesn’t need this amount of sauce

From SeafoodWatch

> AVOID

>Take a pass on Chinook salmon caught in the Puget Sound Chinook fishery, coho salmon caught in the Columbia River above the Bonneville Dam, and Chinook or coho salmon caught on British Columbia’s South Coast.

Emphasis mine.

https://www.seafoodwatch.org/recommendations/search?query=%3Aspecies%3BAtlantic%20salmon

Yeah I agree I was thinking around $30-50, those rolls look tiny and not many nigiri

The beer is where they get you lol. I think 35 bucks is good for better sushi though.

I'm not sure why you priced it so low, as a quick 10 minute look at the menu of a place I've never been before shows that the breakdown is much higher than $25 or $30.

Just the 6 rolls alone would be on average ~$4 each, and that's low end imo. These aren't one ingredient rolls with no sauce or extras on top, like the $3.50 rolls at Sushimoto. So I'm using $4 average even tho it could be $5. $24 for 6 cheap rolls is still very good value, but we're leaving out the 6 pieces of nigiri @ $3 a piece (higher than the $2 I had guessed), so that's another $18. Gonna be easily $40+, approaching $50+ with taxes. The closest thing on the menu to the box pictured is the party tray A, which is 5 rolls, and 12 pieces of nigiri, for $46. That's not a bad deal by any means, but it would still leave you paying $50+ for less sushi than OP got. Quality matters though, for all we know the sushi OP ate was ass lol.

Now, I'll absolutely be going to Sushimoto, and likely often if it's good, because those prices are cheap for 2023. But long gone are the days where you could spend $25 bucks at a decent sushi place and get a large quantity of food.

Edit: and yes, I'm from Victoria, born and raised in Vancouver though. My favorite sushi place in Victoria is similarly priced to Sushimoto, and if the quality is anywhere similar, I'm sure Sushimoto is awesome. But even at my local place I couldn't get this much for less than $50 OTD, but a tray of 8 separate rolls (some bigger/better than pictured by OP) is $49.99, and that's a 58pc tray.

Editedit: I'll also say, my favorite sushi roll from my local place was $11.99 ~6 months ago. It's now $16.99. I actually fully believe that you could get the same amount or more than OP in Vancouver for $30 just a year ago. But prices have shot up like crazy from what I'm seeing.

Honestly, we mostly eat temaki at home these days, or go to a proper mom&pop sushi place out here in the inaka

This is truly beautiful

Fish farming is definitely a very good thing. I think people are a bit icky about salmon though because there have been several reports about unsafe/unethical farming practices in regards to salmon (particularly in Norway), but I think that the best we can do is probably just look for asc certifications and things of the sort when we buy fish

I always thought wild salmon was much riskier than farmed. At least in Japan it used it be

I want this inside of me

Dammn that looks exquisite

nah, farmed are good and tasty too

For people that are asking how much this was. We paid £38 (discounted from £42.50) for it and was enough for both of us for lunch (with a handful of pieces left over)

It is!

Sushi Co in London, UK

Where? *Don't worry I found your other comment

Sushi Co in London, UK. £38 (discounted from £42.50)

Pickled ginger in the middle and white cabbage on the left

OMG looks soooo good 🤤🤤🤤

Looking at this for a long time cause ill never be able to eat something like this :(

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Why not?

😍😍😍😍😍😍

I got so excited to see a .co.uk that I was ready to drop £50 on sushi but it doesn't deliver to my area 😭😭😭

I'll grab a wee yo sushi and be sad about it

Did you save some for us?

People only see the NATgeo salmon. Wild means wild, you get everything.

Flash freezed sushi graded wild salmon is safe.

I guess this is in the US so that might not apply here (amount of California rolls doesn't match most Japanese kaiten -or not- delivery sushi places).

Depends on where. The Baltic Sea is full of dioxin, as is the Derwent River in Tasmania, both from paper production. Other places may have other forms of pollution.

Are sushi that expensive in the us?

Side question: does those look good on a US standard?

Tree fiddy

Bet you tell people you eat wild Atlantic salmon aren't you....

All "sushi" grade fish in the US is flash Frozen

It that must not be named man

You can tell this was made by a white person

That's the best part! Don't tell me you've never tried it? Like going to the movies blind.

Oof. This looks good but idk what it is about sushi but I can't eat more than like 5-6 of them then I need to eat smth else. Which is also why I've only ever eaten it at places that offered sushi and other food and could never go for dinner at a just sushi place. Doesn't help that I'm not a big fan of the sauces they use.

I still like sushi and eat it from time to time just couldn't imagine eating this whole platter, even as good as it looks.

I think I need to give sushi another try

100%

Spare a cheat day and go to an all you can eat Sashimi buffet I guess. That's what I did.

Lol how could you tell? Looks like a pretty generic platter to me.

omg i want this

Unaaawwwwwwgeeee salivates uncontrollably

Looks amazing! I don't get the fake plastic grass dividers though. Isn't the first time I have seen them with sushi.

Sushi rice is quite sticky - so I think the dividers are there to make it easier to pick up individual pieces

I stan you, but whoever built this platter didn’t need sauces in the first place.

Looks great but I hate the green plastic dividers.

"sharing" platter. Sure... I will take 2!

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Just don't buy a drink with your sushi they are fucking rip off in yo sushi

Cause the costs the same as eating for a week to some people.

yes bro u ate slayyyyyyy

Thanks, thats really interesting

Thank you! I'm definitely going to try this

There's also not a full roll anywhere on that plate...that's going to help the price a bit.

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Definitely not 5 cali rolls, if anything there’s 2 max

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Australia has well managed seafood stocks. Seafood is quite affordable. Add to that the massive amount of competition. I live in the middle of suburbia and google maps has given like 7 different sushi places within a 5 min drive. Sub 50 AUD for sure. So <25 pounds or <35 USD.

I see now why your wife refuses to be on camera.

Right? First thing I thought “I would fuck that up so fast”.

How much do you usually pay for this much sushi in the states?

I'm in London, UK and this was £38. Not sure about the US but a lot of people in the comments were talking about prices in different countries so you might find your answer there!

But it's a fair point that five out of those six rolls have massive pieces of avocado in them. I like avocado as much as the next person, but at that point there's not a lot of fish in those rolls.

Probably either the presentation or they recognized the rolls.

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You’re right, avocado is extremely overused in the west, but a lot of people like it that way so to each their own

Ah yes, the farmed salmon industry FUD. This is why your sashimi grade wild salmon is always flash frozen. I am fortunate to live in an area where salmon fishing is easy to come by, and even have a side of my family that made their living as commercial fisherman.

The farmed salmon can have a massive ecological cost for the local area. Don't believe their BS.

There’s a bunch of random hole in the wall sushi places which are that cheap at least in Vancouver. Recently I went to one up the street from English bay (can’t recall the name) but was super cheap for a bunch of sushi and couple Sapporo

Really? I never ate sushi served like that, so symmetrical and square.

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Because our overfishing of wild fish definitely doesn't have any environmental impacts like releasing maybe half of the world's plastic trash

Sushi Co source great fish and is consistently good. I cannot stand the amount of plastic fake green grass things they do. They are the very definition of waste. It’s perhaps a wider problem that’s amongst alot of sushi restaurants but surely there can there be some sort of biodegrade-able solution?

The plastic grass between the pieces looks delicious, too. Must be authentic.

Farmed salmon companies use the same marketing firms as big tobacco. Keep believing it’s somehow better than wild while you suck on a harmless cigarette.

perfect sushi platter i've seen, i’ll be taking two😮‍💨

I need one!

That looks fantastic

What’s the bottom right nigiri, with the sauce and chives?

I think it's Eel

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I’ve had it before, but it was in a sample set and didn’t get the name. I don’t think it was eel, because I also had eel with a thicker sweeter eel sauce. That one was a citrus ponzu style of sauce.

38-69£s.

It’s more of a more is better sushi place.

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