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http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/condiments/other/real-wasabi.asp
Apparently sushi restaurants don't use real wasabi because the shit is hard to grow and therefor expensive as fuck.
Most of the time you go, you get this horseradish/mustard mixture with green food coloring.
Can you tell the difference here? (don't google before voting cheater)
Poll: Which paste is which?Imitation on Left, Wasabi on Right (131) 62% Wasabi on Left, Imitation on Right (81) 38% 212 total votes Your vote: Which paste is which? (Vote): Wasabi on Left, Imitation on Right
(Vote): Imitation on Left, Wasabi on Right
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Right. Wasabi is more yellowish than greenish.
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Well, you can get wasabi powder, but yeah, I didn't ever think it was real wasabi.
I don't think it's good anyway. so. =D doesn't matter to me xD
Buuut yeah, wasabi on right.
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I know the one on the left is fake, because it looks the same as the stuff I get in my wal-mart sushi and I would be shocked if they used anything real.
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Why is this not common knowledge? I feel like it's false advertisement or something >.<
I demand reparations
Shouldn't it always say imitation wasabi or have some asterisk next to wasabi on the menus or have some cheap name like other imitation products like 'whasabi' or something
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Real Wasabi is too expensive to import. If ur a real sushi lover, make ur own sushi, buy and grind ur own wasabi and enjoy :D.
also Sashimi > Sushi
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Just because you don't know something doesn't make it "not common knowledge" my dear CharlieMurphy.
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Stuff on the right looks like it was grated up so I'm going with that. I've actually never had real wasabi but I do know I've been eating the fake stuff at restaurants because of its paste texture and taste exactly like horseradish.
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Wasabi should be on the right in my opinion.
The left one is way too green, appears to be more influenced by green food coloring.
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At some restaurants in Japan, they give you perhaps a 4 cm stalk of wasabi and make you grate it yourself, lol.
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On October 27 2010 12:06 seppolevne wrote:
Just because you don't know something doesn't make it "not common knowledge" my dear CharlieMurphy.
well the voting seems to say otherwise and never in my entire life of sushi loving friends has anyone ever mentioned this
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On October 27 2010 12:31 CharlieMurphy wrote:Show nested quote +On October 27 2010 12:06 seppolevne wrote:
Just because you don't know something doesn't make it "not common knowledge" my dear CharlieMurphy. well the voting seems to say otherwise and never in my entire life of sushi loving friends has anyone ever mentioned this
Maybe no one mentioned it because it's common knowledge 
Edit: You can ignore me I'm just being cheeky.
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Canada3685 Posts
I did not know this. CharlieMurphy taught me something!?
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i said the one on the left is fake, cos its a good colour green so therefore imitation right?
but tbh i'd never be able to tell the fkn difference
not really sure if i care either tbh lol
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wasabi is pretty gross anyway IMO, always throw that shit out
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I say the real is on the right... I think its the 'greeny-ness' that gives it away... I think. 
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I never really use wasabi, Sushi is too expensive for me to try to see how spicy I can eat something. I save that for burritos and chili!
But yeah, I never new it was fake, but I never really cared.
Edit: I'd say the one on the right is real since what I usually see is a light green like what is on the left. So if what I am seeing is fake and the one on the left is what I see, it must be fake.
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