Naked Sushi

[chefa1a]

just did my first "Naked Sushi " event

well pretty well, good turnout, DJ and overall fun night

except the girls complained the wasabi and sriracha burned their skin


heres the first batch of pix

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[jigz369]

Sounds like a great time was had by all! Congratulations! I guess having such sexy girls really helped...

[Jim]

Where do you do something like this? I imagine a 21+ crowd?

[shroomgirl]

I'd heard of a naked sushi event where the sushi was on the girls.....did not know how that would work out. And wondered how they could not have a layer of plastic wrap between the human flesh and the rice. Still humphing and wondering how all that works......
So essentially your girls are just "serving" as platters for the wasabi and ginger?

[Whitey Ford]

I'm glad, shroomgirl, that you are casting a critical eye on this phenom.

Personally, I think it's the epitome of regarding women as sexual props/objects: woman as serving tray.

I think the practice is tacky and sexist and exploitive. (and yeah, probably illegal from a food safety point of view)

But when did tacky and sexist and exploitive ever interrupt a man's desire to see naked women? And brag about it. Men are such dogs.

[baddabing]

Whitey,
With all due respect, I think it's a bit sexist to assume this type of display is just for men 'dogs'.
I agree, it's tacky for most, including myself, but if it sells sushi, then the customer is always right
baddaboom

[Whitey Ford]

Sorry to cast all men as dogs---I suppose there might be a couple of lesbians who would be interested in using naked women as serving platters.

But there are limits on the customer being always right! For example, I am sure that many of my customers would have been pleased if I served them cocktails topless. Unfortunately for them, my focus is providing a pleasurable dining experience with my clothes on!

If a customer requested that I be naked, I'm afraid that my response would not be that the customer is always right, but that this particular customer needs to exit the venue at once!

So I stand corrected: Men (and maybe a coupla lesbians) are such dogs!

[Jim]

Without casting dispersions and making more of a mess of this thread than need be, perhaps the bigger picture is not the sexual nature of the 'dish.' Rather, I see this as just one more leap of "extreme" cooking. From Trotter's use of impossible-to-find ingredients, to edible menus, to $1000 gold-gilded hot fudge sundaes, to... yes, naked sushii, perhaps this is just one more example of culinary trends run amock. Is it outrageous? Sure. Is it sexual? Not doubt. But I think, if you can get past the 'dogs,' you will see that this is as much social commetary as it is food trend.

[shroomgirl]

well, my question was just technical not judgemental........I've heard of sushi being served on human flesh, how does that fly?

[Whitey Ford]

Thank you Jim. Yes, it is but an example of the trend of extreme cooking.

And I guess it's just one more side of the job wherein you are acting like a serving platter, you are naked in public AND the wasabi is BURNING YOUR SKIN.

[shroomgirl]

so having an inny belly button makes for a convenient soy sauce "dish"?
Are there chopsticks around or are fingers picking up maki rolls?
sneezing, giggling, blushing, coughing all problematic....

[baddabing]

My appologies, this is certainly nothing to be serious about. I found it humorus and outrageous.
Now, is this thing for real? Let's say this was at a gentlemans or womans club, I understand that a drink is marked up 5-10 times. Now sushi, What would be the price for a piece? Is this station manned or self service?
I'm assuming with the possability, of not only basic sanitation and health concerns, but with the gross possibility of bidily fluid transfer, this would be nearing the legal and criminal lines.

[RAS1187]

Well you apparantly are going to take some risk when eating anything that comes in contact with human flesh. Me, personally, I dont fret over these things. As long as the models have good personal hygiene I would have no problems with one of these events.

How can it be exploitation if this is obviously a choice willingly made. Nobody (to my knowledge) forced the models to cover themselves in sushi. I would also think a certain degree of "artistic expression" could apply.

[9ballprodigy]

well, the models or "platters" are supposed to be wiped down with alcohol for sanitary reasons.

as for the whole sexist issue, i look at it from the same view i see pornography and strip clubs: there's a demand that is supplied, and the women aren't exactly work for slave wages.

as for the whole naked sushi thing, i think it's kinda dumb. i mean, as art, i can see it working. kinda like those fashion shows where the model wears outfits made out of chocolate. but sushi is supposed to be shaped and served with least manipulation. the fact that the rice and fish are sitting on a human body that is generating heat makes for either, lukewarm sushi or in case the fish isn't the freshest, a bacterial breeding ground. sushi is supposed to be simple and clean in taste. when you consider that the person it's being served on is probably sweating... ewww.

[Risque Cakes]

I have no opinion about it being sexist or sexy.( my opinion on things like this are on both sides of the extreem, so I keep those opinions to myself!)

But I do have a question, these event's ARE prevalent down here in Miami, but there is NO contact with the food onto the "PLATTER". they lay the seaweed or leaves on the girls and then place/attach the sushi on the leaves so there is no skin to food contact. So, to prevent this, why didn't you lay the leaves down to place the sushi onto?

I also saw from the pictures that there was an alternative to the "NAKED sushi , as there was sushi placed all around on the table covered with a white cloth. So, those people that didnt' want to share this woman's DNA, could still participate in the event.