Poke hopped across the Pacific from Hawaii to the California coast, ultimately spreading onward to the point where a Costco shopper can buy poke by the pound. For example, poke, a type of Hawaiian-Japanese dish, has become the latest trendy food popping up throughout major cities across the US. Its popularity has even spawned derivative types of dishes. High end grocery stores such as Whole Foods offer sushi platters, but so too do more mass market outlets such as Ralph’s or Safeway. It seems that every American city and town has no shortage of sushi restaurants. Within the last two decades, sushi has exploded in popularity in the US. Sushi, especially sashimi (a type of sushi dish which is simply thinly sliced raw fish), has become a beloved and ubiquitous dish in this country and beyond. Today the situation is completely opposite. You could find sushi restaurants, together with other Japanese fare, in places such as Sawtelle or Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, but it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack in a place like Ohio.
Sushi restaurants were limited to major cosmopolitan cities that had a reasonably sized Japanese population.
Holding two pieces of long wooden sticks to pick up food was a strange and unusual concept for Americans as well. As did the odd looking green paste that burned victims’ nostrils and the briny stench of fermented soybeans in the form of soy sauce. The idea of consuming raw fish seemed bizarre to many Americans. Instagram – only a few decades ago, sushi was not very popular in the US. Sashimi Deluxe and Sushi Deluxe consisting of nigiri and rolls from Sushi Gen in Little Tokyo, LA The History of Sushi: Its Ascent From its Origins of Necessity to its Status as a Beloved Global Dish
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