OD'ing on Wasabi??

I used to work in an asian restaurant that served sushi and I'd occasionally have the mix it from a powder. That sucked big time. The powder would fly everywhere and get in your eyes. When I was done, we'd have a lump of wasabi about the size of a melon.

 

I once went to lunch with a bunch of co-workers to a Japanese restaurant. One of the engineers who came along apparently had never had sushi before, and he thought the wasabi was a condiment that you put on it. So that's what he did with the first piece.

Boy, was he wrong. Very soon after he popped it into his mouth and started chewing, his face started blushing and sweating, and he had that rare look of someone chewing in agony. Chew on he did, though, with his mouth closed even, until he could swallow it. I guess there's not much you can do at that point. Spitting it out will not provide relief.

Once I knocked myself across the kitchen taking a close-up whiff of some fresh horseradish I'd just dug up and chopped up in the food processor. It felt like a blowtorch reaching up into my sinuses.

 

Now you know why they make wasabi with VERY cold water.

 

Try some lemon, or a lime. That should neutralize the burn a bit, salt will help as well.

lowsound

 

One of my wifes cousins from Mexico thought it was guacamole and applied it as if it was.
Hilarity ensued.

 

I love wasabi. Like a good dollop of it on almost any piece of sushi that I eat. In between pieces of sushi eat some of the pickled ginger to normalize your taste buds.

 

I have a friend who applies it, outta the tube, onto his sashimi, like toothpaste. Freak.

I love wasabi, but it's an extreme food.

 

I love wasabing someone. You get some on your finger, walk up behind them, then fishhook them real good. Make sure to get it all over their lips and don't get bit.

lowsound

 

Mmmm wasabi :9

 

Be a man and take a couple of jalapenos to wash it down.

 

I work in an ER, if you swell up or have a sore throat or troubles breathing go to the hospital. But your probably ok! If you have continuing symtoms call your primary doctor on call doc tonight and ask him.....good luck

 

Yoghurt is very often your friend when you OD on anything spicy.

Wasabi and horseradish are closely related, so that is no surprise.

 

Wasabi enemas are the worst

 

It doesn't really effect me too much. I wonder whether people react differently to it. I mean, if I take a large chunk its obviously hot, but nothing to phone home about.

 

Are you speaking from experience?



Now I'm really curious...

 

Wasabi is wicked stuff! However I love it on my sushi.

First time I had it I put WAY too much on a small piece of sushi, of course nobody warned me (I don't blame them), and my face got beat red and my eyes teared up like crazy.