Comments on: Silk and Sushi

Silk and Sushi

chunking express — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:25:31 -0800

Silk and Sushi : Chocolate Silk for Breakfast, Sushi for Lunch, Sushi for Dinner -- everyday for a month. It is probably more healthy then eating nothing but McDonalds.

By: Flat Feet Pete

Flat Feet Pete — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:37:15 -0800

Mercury poisoning's a real risk and not fun. Better half's step-sis had a nasty experience that took a long time to get over.

By: fraying

fraying — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 15:06:07 -0800

Better for you? Certainly. Nothing but MickyD's sure is cheaper, though.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 15:16:31 -0800

They claim it's actually cheaper than mcdonalds in Vancouver BC, at least.

By: SpaceCadet

SpaceCadet — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 15:31:29 -0800

Brilliant! Sushi is my favourite food. I remember in Japan I could get very full in a "kaiten-sushi" restaurant (sushi on a conveyor belt) - "tabehodai" (all you can eat) - for about 5 British pounds. I swear I could not get so full in a UK McDonalds restaurant at that price. So much for Japan as being an expensive place (hah!). That's what I call good value!

By: t r a c y

t r a c y — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 15:53:44 -0800

a month...? oh please, i've been living on vanilla soy milk and california roll for about a year now. it's just what i crave most.

By: dorian

dorian — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:21:04 -0800

I used to drink silk for breakfast. but now I have a beer and a vitamin, and everyone at work remarks on how calm and collected and intelligent I am. but good lord! I really need to move to canada if sushi is so cheap there. it's kinda sad, you can either eat wild fish or farmed fish -- one will give you mercury poisoning, t'other will give you pcb or some other sort of poisoning, sigh.

By: dorian

dorian — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:26:32 -0800

(also, much as I love soy milk, almond milk ('specially zyugulik) is all kinds of tastey)

By: jonson

jonson — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:33:10 -0800

Am I misreading, or is this post inaccurate? I thought they were doing two meals of Silk a day, and only ONE meal of Sushi. That would 1) explain why it's cheaper than McD's, and 2) absolutely rule it out for me. One meal of solid food a day? By choice?

By: jca

jca — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:45:20 -0800

Being on a low carb diet, I really really miss sushi.

By: dorian

dorian — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:52:33 -0800

so order sashimi instead! (often served with shredded daikon which, I imagine, has much less carbs than rice...)

By: shoepal

shoepal — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:27:39 -0800

Sushi for breakfast might be a bit much, but onigiri for breakfast rocks! I spent several weeks in Japan living on onigiri for breakfast, noodles for lunch (udon or ramen) and a "sensible" dinner (usually consisting of noodles with fish or pork) and I lost 15-20 pounds easily. I *heart* the japanese diet. One of the saddest things in Japan is to see all the kids eating @ Ma ku do na ru do. (though, I do LOVE me some Mos Burger)

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:40:26 -0800

"You need to have one of these koala things, they're delicious."

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:28:19 -0800

Vanilla Silk is OK, but for some reason, to me, Chocolate Silk is gagworthy. If I were doing this diet (which, uh, I guess I wouldn't be because I don't eat fish) I'd definitely make it Rich Chocolate VitaSoy. Mmmmmmm. Almond milk is great, too. What the hell is "zyugulik," though?

By: chunking express

chunking express — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:31:59 -0800

Jonson, looks like I can't read. Apparently they are just planning on eating sushi dinners. Perhaps that will change as the month goes on. Two liquid meals a day is kind of nasty. Though I've never had this silk stuff. Perhaps it tastes really good.

By: pascal

pascal — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:58:08 -0800

Funnily enough, I live in Vancouver and have been dieting for the past couple of months, and sushi has played a big part in my diet - I probably have sushi for lunch 3 or 4 days a week. I've managed to lose 20lbs so far (down from 185 to 165.) Basically my diet plan was to reduce calories and do more exercise, and sushi is cheap, filling, tasty, easily available, relatively low in calories and fat. A bit of a no-brainer really. I can confirm that sushi is incredibly cheap in Vancouver: at the places close to my office, tuna or salmon nigiri goes for $0.99 a piece, maki (rolls) for $2-4 for 6 pieces depending on contents. In the Cambie & Broadway area that this lot appear to be talking about, there are some insanely cheap places. Regarding the whole mercury poisoning thing that some people have mentioned - you should remember that sushi means "rice", not "fish". There is a lot of sushi you can have without fish. For example, one of my regular lunch haunts offers the following kinds of roll: chicken yakidori, beef teriyaki, vegatable tempura, yam tempura, cucumber etc etc. Oh, and I agree with whoever it was who said that onigiris rock.

By: jca

jca — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:21:23 -0800

dorian: I'm a big fan of maki sushi (rolls), so I don't know that sashimi would work as a substitute for me.

By: dorian

dorian — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:27:26 -0800

朱古力 (zyugulik) == chocolate, sorry for laziness. -- makizushi as well as chirashizushi are big favorites of mine, but in the end it's all about the fish y'know ^_^

By: dorian

dorian — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:40:42 -0800

never had this silk stuff. Perhaps it tastes really good. as western versions of soymilk go, it's not bad -- there is nothing that can beat the sweet (or salty!) implementation of soymilk that can be had at a decent taiwanese restaurant (served with hot 油炸鬼!!), but for mass-production buyable stuff you can't go terribly wrong with silk (or westbrae, imagine, etc....store versions of chinese soymilk generally end up being much too sweet/salty for my taste...)

By: concreteforest

concreteforest — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:41:38 -0800

yes, sushi is very cheap in that area. Personally, I like sushi a lot, but that much?.... I can't think of another type of food that would be harder to get fat on though. (first post, hello everyone! Please ignore the horrible eye searing color scheme on the link).

By: shoepal

shoepal — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:40:00 -0800

welcome, concreteforest! Not to spread an urban legend or anything, but isn't it bad to consume a lot of soy? (I know, I know, anything in moderation.) Seriously, though. I swear I read something about studies involving soy consumption and, er, "problems." Then again, I swear I read somewhere that the Okinawan's live to be 100 particularly due to their soy consumption. oi vey.

By: gyc

gyc — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:00:28 -0800

as western versions of soymilk go, it's not bad -- there is nothing that can beat the sweet (or salty!) implementation of soymilk that can be had at a decent taiwanese restaurant (served with hot ???!!), but for mass-production buyable stuff you can't go terribly wrong with silk (or westbrae, imagine, etc....store versions of chinese soymilk generally end up being much too sweet/salty for my taste...) So what does the store-bought versions of soymilk taste like compared to the Chinese version? I've only had the Chinese versions and it would be nice if I could get a similar tasting product at the grocery store. I especially can't imagine having chololate or vanilla versions of soymilk.

By: gyc

gyc — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:01:10 -0800

oops forgot to unitalic my question: So what does the store-bought versions of soymilk taste like compared to the Chinese version? I've only had the Chinese versions and it would be nice if I could get a similar tasting product at the grocery store. I especially can't imagine having chololate or vanilla versions of soymilk.

By: litlnemo

litlnemo — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:03:36 -0800

Sushi *is* way cheap in Vancouver. I pretty much stuff myself with it when I visit BC. And I live in Seattle normally, where sushi isn't exactly scarce. Silk is good stuff. I find the plain is actually much tastier than the vanilla. The added vanilla flavor bugs me, unless I'm using it to make a dessert or something. I never ever liked soy milk until I tried Silk. What's extra good, though, is the Silk Nog at Christmastime. It's not all thick like normal store-bought egg nog, but it has a good nog flavor and really helps those egg nog cravings. In general I find that Silk is less "watery" feeling than most soy milks. It doesn't gross me out to eat it with Cheerios, say. Doesn't really taste like milk but is enough like it that it was an easy transition.

By: Orb

Orb — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 02:35:11 -0800

It's nice that they are limiting their intake of raw salmon and tuna in an effort to avoid too much mercury, but perhaps they should look at this list of fish/mercury levels. It's not just salmon and tuna that's a problem. I just can't see that in the long run a diet of nothing but soy milk and sushi is any healthier than McD's.

By: agregoli

agregoli — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:29:23 -0800

In the long run, it's got it's on nutritional problems, I'm sure. But the fat content is so far below McDonald's that you won't see the same immediate health problems.

By: Dantien

Dantien — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:31:56 -0800

yeah Orb, except for the fact that the food you are consuming is better FOR you. I'd suspect that fish, seaweed, and rice is superior to bread, beef, cheese, and ketchup. Don't get me started on Silk vs. Coke...

By: dorian

dorian — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:42:54 -0800

gyc -- you can definitely find bottled chinese soymilk in stores, but I never found a brand that I really liked. western soymilk is a fairly different beast, I can't think how to explain it, just try some and see ^_^ it's sort of like those vitasoy drink boxes (e.g. malt flavor, yum!) definitely very sweet. but if you're not into chocolate and vanilla, I know that silk, vitasoy, etc. make plain unsweetened versions which are not bad (hell, one of the companies even makes an unsweetened chocolate soymilk, which is quite nice once you get used to it!). silk also makes a coffee flavor which tastes ok and is probably somewhat healthier than one of those frozen-coffee-sugar beverages.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:51:10 -0800

for those of you who regularly eat fish, please read some of the links above about mercury. not many newspapers picked it up outside of the west coast, but this recent EPA data leak from Clear the Air claims that In recent U.S. EPA tests of fish caught from America's lakes, every fish sample tested was contaminated with mercury, 55 percent contained mercury levels that exceed EPA's "safe" limit for women of childbearing age, and 76 percent exceeded the safe limit for children under age three

By: gyc

gyc — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:58:02 -0800

gyc -- you can definitely find bottled chinese soymilk in stores, but I never found a brand that I really liked. Yes, your're right of course. I'd forgotten about the ones they sell at Chinese groceries which tasted OK to me, although I've never found them at regular grocery stores.