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Hi again - I forgot to forward some other pieces of information about
sushi.  The eel (unagi) is served with a sauce that contains soy sauce.
I asked about this sauce this past weekend at a sushi restaurant.  The
chef said that eel comes frozen to the restaurants and is already
packaged in the sauce.  At the restaurants, more sauced is brushed on.
 
I recently looked for salmon roe (salmon eggs) in an Asian market.  I
found them in the frozen section and packaged in soy sauce.  Don't forget
to read labels of things that may seem to be pure.  I asked the sushi
chef this weekend about the salmon roe in restaurants.  He told me that
at least at his restaurant the salmon roe contained no sauce at all.
 
I will try to track down the source of this information, but I read
somewhere that miso soup that is not clear broth might have ingredients
that are not gf.  This is not to say that clear broth is necessarily gf.
I have never seen clear miso soup in restaurants, so I just don't eat it.
 
Finally, I have also come across seaweed in an Asian market that
contained MSG, just in case you don't want to eat MSG.
 
When I am at Japanese restaurants I find it fun and informative to eat at
the sushi bar.  I like getting to know my chef and asking all these
annoying questions!!  I find that the chefs enjoy the interaction and the
fact that I am so interested!!  They never seem bothered.  On the
contrary...  I also like to see that my food is not contaminated by other
suspicious objects that may be hanging around.
 
Danna Feldgoise
 
Brookline, MA