Borough Park, NY – Challah and Kugel for Shabbat dinner is so yesterday.
Orthodox Jewish residents in Borough Park have caught on to a new trend – sushi!
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Two new sushi restaurants have opened in the heart of the ultra-Orthodox community in the past few months, while other restaurants across the neighborhood have put in sushi bars.
“It’s a new thing here,” a Sushi K Bar manager said. “We have Shabatt sushi platters in different sizes. They’re really popular. Some people are addicted.
The 16th Avenue sushi spot has gotten so popular that it’s open seven days a week. Most nights, it’s open until 2 a.m. “We have tuna, salmon and kani – imitation crab,” specified the manager, hinting at the no-shellfish kosher rule.
Meanwhile Sushi Meshuga has also been raking in fish-starved fans on 13th Avenue.
“It’s a new thing here,” a Sushi K Bar manager said. “We have Shabatt sushi platters in different sizes. They’re really popular. “
These shabbos platters not only are a much healthier alternative to chulent, brisket and kugel, its also a way of showing kovod for shabbos by eating foods that are more elegant, expensive and unusual from the old eastern european standards. Hopefully, one of the big rabbonim will serve sushi at his tisch on motzei shabbos and the concept will really take off.
men miz zich unfressen mit alle taaves
Its all very nice that people are supporting jewish people but what’s the whole tantrum???
Sushi is mosltly common eaten raw don’t we have kitchens?
Hope you people find abit of common sense and start eating normal food
Voos faar a taam hutt shabbos mit chinezishe essin! We should be goizer like the things the yeedin didn’t change in mitzrayim leshoynom, begodimm etc, that Shabbos
it’s ossur tzu fressin dee goyishe eesin.. Make sure that Havdoloh is on Prune juice from being farshtopped from the rice!
what do they mean “open seven days a week”?
its great that b.p finally caught up!its delish and can also be very healthy!!!!i.e brown rice and unfried varieties!!!
I personally find the price obscene.
I truly don’t understand how people spend $45+ on a platter that can barely feed four.
Do people really have that amount of expendable income? With tuition at $500-600 a child per month?
Someone please explain Charedi Economics 101 to me.
My wife and I have a combined income of over 200K with six kids and I clearly cannot afford sushi even once a week.
Perhaps instead of being open on Shabbos, they open up right after making Havdala and they keep the business open till 2:00 a.m.
There are many stores that have late nights and Thursdays is one of those days that they’re open at night till 2:00 A.M. as well
There is a problem with the kashrus in the preparation of sushi. The raw fish, rice or vegies are wrapped in seaweed to hold it together. The seaweed in the ocean absorbs oils and body sweat emitted from other fish including non kosher varieties such as whale and lobster. This was reported in a recent issue of a national biological journal in regard to people with alergic reactions developed after consuming sushi. Ergo when eating sushi you are also eating extractions of fish prohibited by jewish law. The mashgichim are not checking for this and allowing the cosumption of treif.
Just so you know, there exist Chinese Jews, Japanese Jews, Thai Jews, French Jews, Italian Jews, Mexican Jews — so those cuisines ARE what a Yid eats!
There is a principal in food preparation that cooking at the right temperature kills most bacteria and viri. The safety is not absolute, food can get recontaminated and still must be stored very cold or very hot.
I will not join the hordes eating raw fish. The possibility of picking up a parasite are great and diagnosis and tx are not absolutely reliable.
I even avoid sushi that contains no raw fish because they often prepare it with the same equipment.
I do use lox on Shaboss to be yotzei Basar vDagim, I am not sure there is anything wrong wth this.
A question to the Talmidei Chachomim out there.
Bishul Akum only goes on on something that can not be eaten raw.
Now that we have sushi, does that mean that Bishul Akum no longer applies to the types of fishes that are used in sushi?
What do you think?
Sushi may not be so healthy though. First of all, tuna has a high mercury content. Raw fish might have parasites, especially if it is not prepared by someone who is very experienced and more likely to spot parasites.
One can make a healthy low fat version of chulent. It doesn’t have to be unhealthy and high in saturated fat. Beans and potatoes are healthy. One could make a vegetarian chulent and leave out the meat, or perhaps use seitan which is a high protein meat substitute in place of the meat. One could make a low fat vegetable kugle.
Eastern European foods are not Jewish foods. Ask Sefardim if those foods are Jewish foods. Eastern European foods tend to be high in fat and unhealthy. It is nice that foods from other areas are becoming more popular with the frum. My favorite is vegetarian Indian food. The spices used in Indian and Chinese foods have great health benefits.
#11 eer zolt zein gebentschened!! U have values!!! I have friends who were major earners for major corporations and now are embarrassed and eat bread and margarine due to the downsizing and bankruptcy of their companies.
A besser mitzvah would be to send to Tomche shabbos or similar at this trying time. Ask Yeshivas which parent could use help.
Everything is ok but in moderation. #11 u are a special family!
Its a bisha and a charpa that yiden who their zadys and babis had mesires nefesh for a kitzoi shel yid and every haluche in shilchun urech should eat these asian food, i dont understand how can you take it in to your mouth and especially a chasidishe yid with shtramel and bekitshe, its mamesh fres lshem fres, i wonder if the chinese or korean eat hungerian food too like chulent and kishke, are we really so crazy ? i can only say “its moshiach tzeiten” !
It’s called mesorah. Our fathers didn’t eat sushi on Shabbos. For all those bashing the cholent, you can make it healthy and low fat. Don’t be lazy. Not to mention beans are cheap. Why is it that we are kvetching we have no money but the men are still fressing like it’s free and the women think their baby needs matching socks to every outfit in different colors.
Whatever, I won’t touch the sushi- more for you!
They probably open the store on Saturday about 10:15 P.M.
There are kosher restaurants that are owned by non Jews and therefore don’t need to close for shabbat.
“There is a problem with the kashrus in the preparation of sushi. The raw fish, rice or vegies are wrapped in seaweed to hold it together. The seaweed in the ocean absorbs oils and body sweat emitted from other fish including non kosher varieties such as whale and lobster. This was reported in a recent issue of a national biological journal in regard to people with alergic reactions developed after consuming sushi. Ergo when eating sushi you are also eating extractions of fish prohibited by jewish law. The mashgichim are not checking for this and allowing the cosumption of treif.”
Huh? Where did you get that idea? I have never seen any reliable source claim that seaweed is not kosher. Seaweed may contain arsenic or other toxic heavy metals though.Fish cooked whole is a problem. Fish should be cleaned before it is cooked, as the fish likely ate unkosher fish.
i’ll tak shmaltz herring or a good shtikel mattches any day. and i’ll have sushi with my keegel,chulent,ptcha, farfel, and kishka and kasha too. it important to be yotzei kol hadeios. according to my cardiologist. universal healthcare all the way!!
In defense of your comments to #11 — u are totally wrong. If the person pays taxes and pays schar limud (NOT WILLIAMSBURG CHASSIDISHE LOW RATES) and camps and has kinne hora a lot of children it doesn’t leave much with no Section 8,
food stamps and other public assistance programs. Unfortunately, frum families working on the books with large mishpochos are worse off than people in American society on public assistance programs in the US.
Attention everyone!!
“You are what you eat”
Eat and boost the goyishe machulim and become goish yourself.
Than go to the beis hamedresh and prey that your kids should grow up to be ehrliche frum yiddishe kinder.
HEY CAN I PUT MY TWO CENTS IN WITH THE SMARTEST COMMENT OF THE NIGHT!!!
sushi is delicious – healthy – and fun (i personally dont like raw fish so I stick to the cooked version which is fine)
If you wanna be hooked then try the Tuna Pizza Roll with
Fried Pizza Rice, Crunch, Spicy Tuna Seared, Avocado And Onions On Top
I am so hooked to this that I may need an addiction clinic to help me wean off it – Good luck to all the sushi places and just by the way SUSHIKBAR is not open motzei shabbos or sunday in boro park during the summer.
10 years ago no one ate tomato dip chumus tehina olive peper salad and what not.
Picture: Aw you made that just for me! I’ll take it to go =)
I can’t believe such small-minded, self-centered people post here.
1. There are yidden all over the world who eat all kinds of foods. In Asia (where there are plenty of frum yidden) they have been eating sushi for hundreds (if not thousands) of years. Should those yidden stop eating it and start buying rolls of frozen gefilte fish? Such stupidity. Sefardim don’t eat it either. Are they apikorsim for not eating gefilte fish?
2. Sushi is VERY healthy. Tuna and salmon are both good for your heart. As for any contamination fears, the types of fish used are usually those that are very resistant to bacteria (salmon, tuna, etc), and are stored in a very sanitary manner.
3. If you all don’t want it… we’d be happy to have someone open up a sushi bar in my neighborhood!
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t good old herring eaten raw as well? Yes sushi is relatively new on the Jewish scene, but it’s not the first time in history Yidden eat raw fish. Ok, herring is marinated longer, but sushi is also salted an/ or marinated prior to serving. At least the recipes I looked up.
Did you ever hear the expression, “Biz a hundert un tzvantig”. well guess what, Hashem has made only one country where that wish often is reality: Japan. do you know better than the ebeshter what to eat??
Who eats sushi on shabbos ? Milah Toiamahoo dis hot doch de heilige rabi gezoogt ober sushi ?nu zol zein sushi the ikor lekooved shabos ..ahh ahhh
Who eats sushi on shabbos ? Milah Toiamahoo dis hot doch de heilige rabi gezoogt ober sushi ?nu zol zein sushi the ikor lekooved shabos ..ahh ahhh
Hayom omar kach, vilimochar kack, od she’omar lo……
rather pay ur grocery bill then eat raw junk.. its good 2b mshige, but mit a moos… I still remember when pizza was the hot item (if u know what “pizza” means…lol)
This is the food of pagans. And to eat it on Shabbos? phee.
BTW, day old sushi is not vrery good for you.
Sad 69 comments on sushi that made me sick for a day will never do that again
Mi sh’oichel dag b’yoim dag nitzil m’dag. (dag be’gematria 7) In other words, whoever eats (dag) fish on (dag = 7) shabbos will be saved from dag (dag acronym for ‘dinei gehanom’).
Did they eat sushi in Fiddler on the Roof?
After reading through 80 posts where one yid is not calling another an am’horetz, an apikores, saying he will burn in genenom, or his children must be mamzerim, or bashing the rabbonim its sort of nice to have an article like this now and then. I also learned to check with the mashgiach at the sushi bar to make sure that the sweat glands were properly removed from the yellowtail prior to shechita.
I think the bishul akum rule is waived by what chazal call “chai” I.e. vegs,fruits & so on,not a generally cooked food that someone thought of eating raw.(I only think so don’t kill me!!) Please!!
HEY 83!
your actual 200 K are fake, in reality you are not mking any real money, balance 0
you r paying to much in taxes, check it out, deducting tuitions directly,etc
10 k in shoes, drycleaning, too much, also too muck tzedaka, you can deduct tuitons from kids 6 yaers old and up,it is a luxury for your money the summer camps,too much medical,dental,
if you are smart, move to KY and you are millionaire
I personally avoid sushi on Shabbos as it’s best eaten fresh, but I believe that the KB”H wants us to enjoy all the good of this world, and tasting and enjoying different foods, as long as they’re kosher, is a part of that. I also highly recommend skydiving.
We need money for a family they need Sushi and Fleish for shabos
“kosher restaurant owned by goyim ? never heard of that, and kosher restaurant opened on shabbes neither.
how can they get a teudat hakashrus in theses conditions ?”
In NYC there are many of them. Most are vegetarian restaurants though. Many are Indian vegetarian or Chinese vegetarian. Meat kosher restaurants owned by a non Jew probably require a mashgiach to be present all the time, so theose probably wouldn’t be open on shabbat.
Just remember to break apart those Chop Sticks before Shabbos (if you’re using the cheap ones). I asked a Gadol if the sticks are considered muktsa and he told me that he himself uses a fork as a chumra.
Doesn’t the halachah say that raw fish is muktsah??
let me ask u if some1 gave u a raw piece of fish would u eat it?of course not!!! so y is every1 making a big deal out of something that’s even cooked???
Eat raw fish, get a 9 FOOT tapeworm!
NYT’s August 8, 2006
Tale of the Tapeworm (Squeamish Readers Stop Here)
By LARRY ZAROFF, M.D.
This is a Jewish fish story. Or more accurately a Jewish fishworm story.
My mother, like her mother, was an expert Jewish cook, their specialties famous in our extended family. Their secret: taste as you
go. Season slowly until the perfect flavor comes through.
It’s a safe technique with latkes or kreplach but not always with gefilte fish, a ground concoction of freshwater fish, spices, eggs,
salt and matzo meal.
My mother never became sick from tasting raw fish, but, by chance, gefilte fish turned out to be a formidable problem for my
medical partner’s wife, Rita.
Rita was meticulous in keeping a kosher house and enjoyed making the special Jewish dishes, including gefilte fish. An unusually
energetic young woman, she was able to work in the garden, clean the house, cook and support her husband’s surgical practice
without effort. But she had not been feeling well for months: abdominal symptoms of cramps, distention and occasional diarrhea,
associated with increasing weakness, shortness of breath, lethargy and fatigue.
Bob, her husband, was concerned enough to obtain blood work that revealed a profound anemia: her red blood cells were in short
supply. Here was a woman, in her 40’s, who ate a normal diet and took her vitamins. She had no gastrointestinal symptoms until
this episode and had no obvious blood loss. What could be the cause of the anemia?
Microscopic examination of Rita’s red blood cells provided a clue. They were enlarged, with unusual structures, described as
macrocytic. A common cause of this is pernicious anemia resulting from a shortage of vitamin B12 or folic acid, both necessary for
the production of red blood cells. But Rita had no neurologic signs of pernicious anemia or any other systemic disease that would
cause a lack of B12 or folate.
Her doctors were stumped.
Enter Dr. Earl Lipman, a close friend of Bob’s and an outstanding internist and diagnostician, who identified the culprit over the
phone.
Earl asked, “Does Rita make her own gefilte fish?”
“Yes.”
“Does she ever taste the raw fish before adding salt?” Earl continued.
“Yes.”
“She most likely has a fish tapeworm.”
The fish tapeworm — a beast, stubborn as a dog with a beef bone — is reluctant to move, tightly gripping the wall of the small
intestine with its two suction cups. The worm requires a powerful purging medicine to persuade it to leave its cozy cave and exit
the gut into the light.
After purging, Rita discharged a tapeworm three feet long. Examination of the worm proved Dr. Lipman correct. Diphyllobothrium
latum, the fish tapeworm, was identified by the pathologist. Her anemia slowly went away, and her abdominal symptoms
disappeared.
The disease is unusual and the diagnosis can be hard to make. It was good fortune that Dr. Lipman had been a resident at Mount
Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, where he had done research on vitamin B12.
Rita expressed her gratitude to by presenting Dr. Lipman with a large china fish platter.
The largest parasite of humans, the fish tapeworm — known for its length and the length of its life — is an ideal freeloader:
compassionate, cunning, living off its host but not killing its benefactor. Often the worm causes no harm but may, as in Rita’s case,
cause symptomatic anemia.
In the intestine, the worm is a fierce competitor for vitamin B12. Absorbing the vitamin for its own needs, the worm deprives the
bone marrow of a vital ingredient for making red blood cells.
Tapeworms sometimes reach a length of 30 feet and can live up to 20 years. They have a complex life cycle; in adult form they
attach themselves by suction cup to the small intestine of vertebrates.
The fishworm is a compact sex machine containing both male and female sex organs sufficient to produce and release up to a
million eggs a day.
To survive, the eggs must reach fresh water, where they become embryos with hooks that are ingested by crustaceans. The
crustaceans in turn are swallowed by fish. Freshwater fish like the pike and perch, major ingredients of gefilte fish, are especially
fond of these delicacies.
Ingested, the larvae of the worms embed themselves comfortably in the muscle fibers of the fish. When humans or other
vertebrates swallow the raw fish, the cycle is completed.
Though symptoms are sometimes described as the Jewish housewives’ disease, the worm is nonsectarian, and the anemia can be
found in other cultures that eat raw freshwater fish.
1. sushi is not healthy good grief
raw fish has high levels of intestinal worms. um, open a new york times or newsweek and get your head out of yated and hamodea and learn about health issues connected with eating raw fish. or raw meat
if you want that disgusting garbage living in your intestinal tract, by all means
plus, anyone that is educated at all about the world around them knows about mercury. only if the fish is wild is it ok.
good grief. this has nothing to do with ‘shabbos’ and ”chulent’,,and ‘kishke’ dont you people have anything else to argue about besides that stupid nonsense that you think gives you credence as a frummer yid or a not frum yid?
get a life.
Raboisai, you are all right and all wrong. Avadeh, it is important to preserve our mesoire and even not to change a kutzo shel yud. Chas v’chalilah to eliminate any of the foods that are part of our mesoreh, including the gefilte fish, soup, kugel (l’katchila at least two kinds of kugel at each meal), chulent, ptcha, herring, etc. On the other hand we are supposed to be mechabed the shabbos with the most chashuv and tasty foods and if that is sushi then we should have sushi at the shabbos table. The solution is simple, we should include sushi on the menu without eliminating any of the other foods. V’chol hamarbeh harei zeh meshubach.
I am not sure the above fishworm story applies to sushi because there must be certain rules what kind of raw fish is used in sushi to ensure there are no parasites.
However, I always choose the cooked fish types (salmon, imitation crab, etc). I love sushi but I cannot stomach the thought of eating raw fish. If you have never tasted sushi and don’t want to eat raw fish, try a cooked salmon roll and you’ll see why people love it. It’s healthy, tastes good and I honestly don’t see the difference between eating cholent & kishke and sushi. You can fress both or you can eat them both in moderation. The fact that Eastern European Jews ate kishka doesn’t make it more kosher than sushi. Just like Goulash – it was a “Hungarian” specialty, which is why our Hungarian ancestors liked it.
A cubic inch of typical kishka has roughly 80 calories, 52-53 of which are from saturated fat. That’s over 60%. Most current dietary guidelines recommend fat intake of no more than 20% of total calorie consumption, limiting saturated fats to below 10%. You’ll be in Gan Eden real fast, if you keep eating this poison.