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To let DD eat sushi

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helpmegetthisrightplease · 20/06/2009 16:22

DD loves Japanese food and I occassionally take her to a Japanese resturant that does a buffet (set price to take as many dishes as you like off a conveyer belt).

She loves it including the sushi. We went today and I heard a couple of women loudly commenting how wrong it is to let a small child eat sushi as they cant digest raw fish.

Now I'm wondering if its alright to let her (she's 3+7). She's been eating it on ocassion for about a year and always really enjoyed it. am I wrong to let her?

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SomeGuy · 20/06/2009 21:23

Good sushi is quite expensive and hard to find. Best to make your own

Thunderduck · 20/06/2009 21:26

I'm planning on taking a sushi making class.

It isn't that hard to find in Glasgow.I know a few good places, but have a regular.

lucky1979 · 20/06/2009 21:32

I lived in Japan for years and kids there eat sushi all the time - no problems with digestion or anything else. They were probably just jealous because you have adventurous kids who eat a varied menu and theirs only like chips

JoyS · 20/06/2009 21:41

Mmmmm sushi. We are going out for sushi tonight. DD1 is 3.1 and only eats fish anyway. Will eat anything put in front of her at a sushi restaurant. Hasn't seemed to do her any harm!

2rebecca · 20/06/2009 21:47

The people commenting were ignorant. My son loves yo sushi and we've had fun making it.

ridingjoker · 20/06/2009 22:05

more raw fish munchers in this house. when i'm using smoked salmon to make anything i have to buy 2 packs. one for cooking the dish. the other for the dc to eat. they have a radar which senses the opening of a smoked salmon packet. similar to the radar which hears chocolate wrappers.

JoPie · 20/06/2009 22:58

I got told off recently for letting my toddler eat mushrooms. No, seriously. In this persons home country the pediatrician says its a big no-no. And I'm especially bad for giving them peanut butter.

I resisted the urge to remind said person how they feed their children biscuits for breakfast and used to put spoonfuls of sugar into the baby bottles.

Sushi is perfectly fine for toddlers. Some people just have too many bloody opinions.

LovelyTinOfSpam · 21/06/2009 14:42

Which country is it that has the mushroom fear jopie? Never heard that one before!

JoPie · 21/06/2009 14:42

Italy, spam.

LovelyTinOfSpam · 21/06/2009 14:47

Really???

How odd! I though they were into going mushroom gathering etc. Maybe that's why - children have been poisoned by over-enthusiastic mushroom foraging parents?

If they're from a shop though...

JoPie · 21/06/2009 14:53

Apparently small children are unable to digest fungus . They were commercial tastless button mushrooms, not even exotic!

LovelyTinOfSpam · 21/06/2009 14:55

How peculiar. Has just reminded me of another thread where a strange Italian superstition came up..

Let me think...

Something about if you go from hot sun to cold water then your innards will jump up and strangle you or something. Was very odd.

LovelyTinOfSpam · 21/06/2009 14:57

Yes here.

And yet all of my Italian friends seem quite sane.

Morloth · 21/06/2009 15:42

LovelyTinOfSpam A friend of ours died in Australia after mowing the lawn in the middle of the day (in summer!) and then going inside and having a cold shower. He was only in his 50s and quite fit but he sudden change in temperature brought on a heart attack apparently.

This was a pretty extreme case, no idea why he was mowing the lawn in the middle of the day.

Now I am paranoid when showering after the gym/run I also make sure the water is quite warm before stepping under!

LovelyTinOfSpam · 21/06/2009 15:51

I'm sorry to hear that morloth.

The thread in question wasn't referring to heart attack - which obviously can be a risk, but to some kind of intestinal blockage. It was also claimed that drinking a glass of cold water could kill you!

Morloth · 21/06/2009 15:53

I wonder how that would work?

LovelyTinOfSpam · 21/06/2009 15:57

We all wondered that morloth, at some length!

It was quite funny really. Link is above.

Best part was, the OP asked if it was a cultural oddness/myth, then when everyone said yes, she refused to believe them!

gagamama · 21/06/2009 17:00

I've been dying to ask if toddlers/pre-schoolers can eat raw fish sushi but was too embarassed in case I was laughed out of MN for not knowing guidelines or feeding my kids poncey food.

Both my DSs love prawn nigiri and vegetable rolls but I've been worried about parasites but mostly salt levels of the raw fish varieties (even though I know they'll love them, DS1 in particular). I'll give them a try of it next time. I adore sashimi!

SomeGuy · 21/06/2009 22:16

Mushrooms are quite funny things. THere are a lot of different varieties and chemicals and some of them provoke reactions in some people but not others. If you live in a country that eats more than the token few English varieties I wouldn't be surprised that they're a bit more cautious.

SomeGuy · 21/06/2009 22:17

Prawn nigiri is cooked.

Knakard · 21/06/2009 22:23

Raw fish is not recommended for anyone with lowered immunity, but purly as this is a "high risk food" no work than a pink steak or general takeaway food.

And if my ds is anything to go by most toddlers have a cast iron constitution to rival any of ours!

Also just to clear up, sushi is a broad general term with no real specific meaning but a japanese dish of fish and rice, sashimi is premium slices of raw or seared fish, the "premium" not the "raw" bit being most poignant.

Pennybubbly · 23/06/2009 03:49

I've lived in Japan for 14 years and have 2 dcs with my (Japanese) husband. At work now and just checked with the Japanese ladies here if there's a certain age that they let kids eat sashimi here (sashimi is the raw stuff, sushi can also be stuff like cucumber, egg, natto etc so shouldn't be eyebrow-raising for a small child to eat) and they looked at me COMPLETELY baffled... In short, they avoid sashimi in pregnancy, but would let their kids eat it (within reason) like they'd eat any other food...

Lizzylou · 23/06/2009 03:58

Mmmm sushi, where do you think one could get sushi from in East Lancashire, at 4am?

Wish I'd never read this now, as am hungry but it has been an education.

Pennybubbly · 23/06/2009 04:32

Lizzylou - want me to send you some from Japan?! Will probably be as fresh as the stuff you can get in Tesco's by the time it got there

Lizzylou · 23/06/2009 04:39

OOh yes please Penny!
You lucky thing, living in Japan, I have heard it is a vibrant and interesting place. Have always wanted to go (prob for the food!)

We could do a cultural food swap, I will swap you your wonderful, light and tasty Sushi/Sashimi and in return you can have Lancashire Hotpot and pickled red cabbage?

I have been to Japanese restaurants in Vancouver and Manchester but my usual experience of sushi is M&S or Tesco
Am going to try and sleep again now and dream of sushi........if I can sleep over the sound of my stomach rumbling

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