Jiro Dreams about Sushi

I got this recommend on Netflicks.
Can anyone tell me if it's good. I don't really like sushi but that does matter?

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If you wanna see a zombie putting raw fish on rice and ruining his son's life, you're in for some kino

it's a nice documentary about hard work and dedication

It's a great watch if you actually appreciate sushi.

Seen it 3 times now over the years, also visited Tokyo with friends and we spend an hour finding Jiro's restaurant which was hidden in a stairway of a metro station in Ginza.

We straight up walked past it initially and all the japanese people in the metro station kept pointing us in random directions because they had no idea but didn't want to be rude.

Overall 9/10 experience, just like this sushiflick.

>put 300 dollar on rice.
>that makes one fish

LMAO

I prefer Jiro Nightmares of Ass Rape

I don't especially like Sushi (I dislike sea-food greatly), but I do love documentaries and shows about all forms of cooking and Jiro Dreams about Sushi really hooks you into it by showing you all the dedication of this man, his son and their young trainees.

Frankly, even if you don't like sushi, I recommend it.

>if you actually appreciate sushi.

So what makes his sushi so exceptional?

The rice? His skills butchering fish? His seafood suppliers?

he spent his entire life mastering the art of not cooking fish

The rice is very hard to get right. He makes his workers clean toilets with their tongue for 25 years before they can even pour the rice into the cooking pot. It's hard to understand such wise and ancient Asian traditions, but it is truly beautiful.

Is it a fucking meme or not?

>can't differentiate the subtle tastes in sushi and can't appreciate it

pleb

it's not, some retard gave him a high rating in the memelin guide and all the jackasses started flocking to his restaurant

Oh you're one of those people.

>I'll take a caramel machiatto, extra espresso, extra caramel and whip cream please!
>Oh user, I know your order already, you come to starbucks everyday!
>Thank you!

>mfw pretentious white hipsters come here to eat overpriced bullshit so they can brag about it on instagram to the other dipshit bohemian bourgeois just because obummer ate there

Daily reminder that this place is completely over priced and not worth the journey. Anything cooked there can be made better in the US by chefs trained in Japan. This is just fools buying into hype. Americans can cook anything better than any other nation. We take the top chefs and brain drain the fuck out of your nations.

Have you ever had Italian pizza? It fucking sucks dick. New York and Chicago changed the game. French food? Cajun food is the next evolution and shits all over it. Mexican food? Telmex bitch. Anything you can do we do better.

>inb4 asshurt provincials start the water works and crying about McDonalds

I'm sorry that a lifetime of McDonalds has ruined your sense of taste.

always with the fucking pizza

pizza is trash food for trash people, it's shit in both america and italy.

Yeah you're one of those people who can recognize the difference between publix sushi and safeway sushi. youre taste buds are so refined, only the most elite sushi chef could give you gratifying service.

kek these threads always bring out the foodie failures that describe their food with descriptions of how it tastes like other food

>puts raw fish on rice
>that would be $300 nigger

>youre

Thanks for proving my point. Enjoy your MSG and Gluten cancer!

Stop spamming this in every Jiro thread you fucking retard.

>getting buttmad about a Japanese man's tiny restaurant thousands of miles away from your home
This is the first and last time I post in one of these shitty Jiro threads. I bet the OP has never been successful in his life and takes out all his frustration on a senile chef because he got a movie made about him.

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hi jiro

>oh no you can't cook sushi until you've washed riced for at least 3 years

yeah... right

It’s a combination of multiple things that make his food taste unique compared to other restaurants. Mainly his preparation of the food is very detailed oriented and consistent. If you go to slightly less prestigious sushi places, there’s a chance you’ll eat sushi as good as Jiro’s, but you also have the chance of it being subpar or normal. The reason people are awarded 3 Michelin stars is because you not only can make amazing food, you make it consistently every time. Jiro does nothing more than pay extra attention to getting good fish, getting good rice, and preparing both as best as possible. His ability to do this consistently for many years at a top level is why he’s special. It’s the difference between a singer having a one hit wonder and making many great albums consistently over the years.

I don't mind his elitism that much, but sushi really can't have that much of a difference for a normal person. It's silly.

Youre not even even supposed to wash rice, you stupid American.

he doesn't even pick the fucking fish... he gets his retard son to go to the market and the people there set aside a selection of the 'best' fish of the day. this whole thing is such a joke lol.

>that WOULD be

Why does it trigger me so much?

it's only worth it if you're a Jap.

You get to enjoy your sushi for over an hour, and watch Jiro harass and rush disgusting white pigs into shovelling down oyster anuses down their throats.

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commit sudoku

Well for what he charges I could go to a mid-tier sushi place a loooooot of times. And might even end up having had more excellent sushi in the long run.

The best fish picking DNA in all of glorious Nippon flows through that retard's veins.

That's actually what I dream of.

Your spelling is worse than Jiro's sushi, or sushi in general. I am perfectly serious.

>No drink, smoothskin.

You're one of these people

>a worthless faggot

Reddit meme. Next

>i guess this is some kind of Jiro dreams of sushi huh?
D R O P P E D

everything.

How to cook the rice, how to season the rice, how to form the 'rice ball' for the sushi, where the rice comes from, event he seaweed is prepared over some fire grill

Where the fish comes from, the scrutiny in examining the raw fish, the age of the fish, the amount of fat in the fish, how fresh the fish is, how the fish is marinaded, what goes in the marinad, how long it is marinaded for, how fine it is cut before being placed on the rice

His seafood is all prepared on the day of, (not frozen) the octopus/shrimp/eel are all living the day you walk into the restaurant and are prepared on arrival, the autistic obsession he has with preparation is seen here: he claims/knows octopus is generally too tough so instead of massaging the muscles for 20 minutes he massages it close to an hour

WOOOOW YOU'VE BEEN PUTTING RAW FISH ON RICE FOR QUARTER A CENTURY SUCH MASTERY BRAVO JIRO YOU ARE SO GOOD AT PUTTING RAW FISH ON RICE

if you actually think most of that matters you're fucking mental. give someone a piece of sushi from any decent local sushi place and then give him a piece of sushi from jiros place and they won't be able to tell the difference.

it's fucking rice and fish, there's only so much you can do with that

>he doesn't even pick the fucking fish
who do you think taught his son what he wanted you fucking mouth breather?
>they set aside the "best" fish
no they dont, they just bring the fish and jiro fish dealer and others set the value by auctioning for which fish they want. It is clearly shown in the documentary they are separated by size not by "this tuna will taste so good for sushi"
if you cant even pay attention to an hour long documentary you need to kill yourself immediately.

yea man, people just pay more for his service because of a big grand liberal conspiracy, think of the memes! KEK

wow you can't pay attention at all. the guy at the fish market says he sets aside fish for jiro

>big grand liberal conspiracy

what a surprise, you are mental. what does this have to do with anything?

>when the love interest says "oh jiro, your sushi is so dreamy"

Why the fuck

you mean the tuna dealer that buys a 500lb tuna from auctions sets aside tuna for one of his many clients?
imagine my shock.

It's not as easy as people here claim, but it's really overated. Most Japanese people will tell you it's a tourist trap.

because that is literally what you are suggesting. I live in a world that people pay extra for a better service. If the food tastes so similar why is he being paid more for the same product, why is he receiving mich stars for the same product, why is he getting a documentary of his restaurant for the same product, why is a sushi critic who has dined in as many sushi places as he can saying his is the undisputed best, if it isnt some massive conspiracy.

They dont pay for the sushi, they are paying to brag about how they got to experience it, its the typical rich fuck thing to do.

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>Jiro dreams of scamming stupid gaijin

>they are paying to brag about how they got to experience it
yes they pay to experience the best sushi. im glad we can agree.
How do you think it got such fame autist?

what conspiracy? food critics are faggots that have a following of even bigger faggots that actually listen to them. that's all this is.

you can totally tell the difference between expensive and cheap sushi

the point is most people don't even have the ability to differentiate between world class sushi and gas station sushi but they want to tell and show other people that they ate the best of the best

>decent local sushi place

that's what i said, not cheap sushi. at a certain point the only different is how much money you are paying for it

That’s not really the point. There’s the chance that no matter how many times you go to a mid-tier sushi place you never experience sushi at a top level. The point of paying that much is a guaranteed top-level food experience. It’s not just Michelin who considers his food amazing, it’s other top tier chefs around the globe. Juro is doing something other top chefs think is incredible without having complicated or secret methods.

>people that are paid to critique food for a living, actually cant critique food
Let me guess, do you also claim film producers are actually terrible at their job too?

>Not only can i make generalizations of jiros customers palettes but also the reason they attend his restaurant because my feelings say so
Surely I am inclined to believe you now.

Sushi is fucking horrible.
Can you all shut the hell up and get a burger or something worthwhile for your daily calorie intake

it's the same fucking thing with craft beer and coffee culture in the last 5 years
people want to be known for having a taste for exquisite and rare things and being able to fully appreciate the fine things in life
nobody wants to be a construction worker doing honest work and sitting down with the boys for a pint at the end of the day
everyone wants to be a connoisseur these days

What if I stuff a tuna with rice and roast it like a turkey side of cranberry can sauce? I am legend.

It got fame because it was overrated by some dumb schmuck you fucking idiot

If the user who argued this guy was better than that Masa because he hates you and your time, you're a delusional moron.

well Cali rolls are like bottom tier, if you only ate them yea sushi would suck ass

>Let me guess, do you also claim film producers are actually terrible at their job too?

let me guess, you actually read and follow food critics?

I agree.
Excellent critical thinking my friend. Some dumb schmuck was trying to decide the best sushi place in tokyo so instead of trying as many restaurants as he could, he threw a dart at a dart board of every sushi place in tokyo, and it just happened to land of Jiro's
I bet that is exactly what happened.

>big grand liberal conspiracy
What are you on about?

i can see the aspiring food critic is getting mad as fuck

>let me guess you actually listen to the opinion of 500+ people that know more about cooking and preparing food than you, almost like you would listen to the electricians/plumbers/architects/doctors/physicians/ that know more about their field than you.

Why yes, yes I would.

holy fuck are seriously comparing something as subjective as a food critic to doctors

holy fuck look at this soyboy

if you cant tell im on your side you need to go back to reddti

>how to cook and prepare food is subjective
have a nice day kiddo, this is over your head.

I think it's a good thing to fully dedicate your life to perfect something that you're really passionate about and being the best without ever wanting to be.
But I think the amount of people who can really and truthfully appreciate and recognize the food with all it's nuances and the work put into it is rather small.
And the Youtuber who read about this guy on some blog, went there and ate a meal he probably couldn't afford just to make a video and put it on Youtube to collect Likes is probably the guy who brought the restaurant international fame, but it's also the guy who doesn't understand the concept and philosophy behind it AT ALL.

I'm an American and you're a fucking embarassment to all of us
You clearly live in a flyover state and have never left the country in your life

Wait. Does Publix have sushi? I have to know, user. This is important.

that's kind of true but it's also true that once you get into something and invest time, effort, and usually money as well you genuinely can differentiate between things that someone who hasn't made such investment will find completely indistinguishable. that's basically what any hobbyist does and there's nothing wrong with having beer or coffee as a hobby instead of collecting stamps or watching birds. also i'm not sure what being a construction worker has to do with anything, that just makes it seem like insincere and detached longing for blue collar life that you don't have any actual experience with.

this place good
this place bad

now i'm a critic give me money please

fucking soyboys

>taste isn't subjective

If Jiro is so skilled why won't he serve Puffer Fish? Isn't that a challenge an autist like him would embrace?

is there anything more reddit than a "I'm in this group you're also in and even I hate you" poster?

Naw, it's the most reddity thing you can do
literal cuck

>foodie failure
That's redundant

Have you never heard of diminishing returns? Jiro's sushi is likely excellent on most days, but there's no way he's objectively "the best" sushi maker or that his "technique" renders him peerless. There is no real mastery to sushi. His sushi tastes largely the same as the sushi from any high-end sushi restaurant. The key difference is that Jirro has a narrative a food writer can work with: ancient craftsman tirelessly makes sushi, day after day, out of a hole in the wall. These sorts of things, alongside presentation, matter to Michelin as much as, if not more than, the food itself. They eat it up. So yeah, a lot of Jiro's success has to do with pretence, and I can see why people might see him as a fraud because of that.

generally and traditionally fugu is only served at restaurants that specialize in it.

At least Jiro gives you actual food.

There are michelin stars restaurants that feed you ant ridden bread and dabs of 50 ingredient sauce.

Wait... so you're saying this guy isn't even a specialist?

DUDE TREATING RAW FISH LIKE AN ART LMAO

how is it pretence if that's actually his life?

>dedicating your whole life to putting raw fish on cooked rice

my dad fillets and fries walleye and yellow perch better than any sushi.

No you didn't, asshole. You just want to kill another dead meme even more. Fuck off.

this guy
youtube.com/watch?v=oYcT2oiQMeE
but to be fair it's actually quite affordable and cheap for a 15 course meal at the literally best restaurant in the world some years in a row

pretence
prJˈtɛns/
noun
noun: pretence; plural noun: pretences; noun: pretense; plural noun: pretenses

1. an attempt to make something that is not the case appear true.

There is no such thing as a "master" of sushi. I already explained why in the previous post.

>all the japanese people in the metro station kept pointing us in random directions because they had no idea but didn't want to be rude
why not just say "I don't know"? fucking beta faggots