The California Roll Was Invented in Canada
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- Опубликовано: 23 апр 2017
- In 1971, sushi was not widely consumed in North America. In fact, it wasn't popular at all. Chef Hidekazu Tojo, a Japanese chef new to Vancouver, British Columbia, needed to find a way in. So to appeal to western palates, he decided to flip traditional sushi rolls inside-out. By concealing the seaweed on the inside and packing the rolls with ingredients that Canadians were more familiar with-cucumber, cooked crab, and avocado-Tojo invented one of the most famous North American sushi rolls ever: the California roll.
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So it's a Japanese food made by a traditional sushi chef who invented it in Canada and gained its known name because Californians loved it. That's one heck of a journey for what's inside out sushi
Wikipedia tells a different tale.
You should look up the origin of Caesar salad.
Aka, just like how italians would see our 'pizza' as 'American Pizza' and germans would see our 'hot dogs' as 'American Hotdogs', japanese would see our 'sushi' as 'American Sushi'.
You could make a movie out of this...
California rolls did actually invented in California by a Japanese chef and there no evidence of Californians went to Canada a chef decided to called the rolls California
First Pineapple pizza, then California Rolls, damn Canada's game is very strong
Joe Rivero we call it hawaiian
Pizza*
If Canada made this stuff, people congratulate them. If America made it though, we would get bashed. This world needs to stop hating America.
cant forget poutine
i think its just cause you guys gave yourself a bad rap with all your decisions so people can justify picking on you for little things to like throwing salt in all your cuts
love that guy. now im eating fuckin sashimi like a fucking boss
Nothing better than sashimi with soy sauce! True love.
i get Diarrhea eating those. i hate my tummy
+El Bottoo I see you are bashing Japanese people everywhere, well the proof is, You *DONT* and stop fucking hating. Your country is shit anyways.
El Bottoo
I have been eating said raw fish on a regular basis for over 30 years. Zero problems. You are misinformed. You could also be hit by lightening. Do you not go outdoors, because so?
solar clapson beer
Just had sushi tonight so this was a quite the coincidental delight to learn! 🍣
Sushi
*The Good News Channel* Probably sushi
Same
Vongdeuane Thammanuvong yesssss
DcIrine Fadli go get a life dickhead
“Tojo did something crazy”
Not the first Tojo to do something crazy
damn thats scary
Tojo bizarre adventure
Danganronpa V3
Kirumi Tojo, Ultimate Maid
Danganronpa V3
Kirume
guess Tojo played a ROLL in making sushi popular
ha
ha
I'm funny I swear
Gelu hahahha
lol
i get it
ROLL = ROLE
Angelu haha
this is so underrated
He he
Chef Tojo: *Rolling the seaweed inside the rice*
Japanese People: wait that's illegal
Interviewer: "How did you manage to get the seaweed on the inside?
Chef Tojo: "Because that's just how I roll"
Sorry.... I'll go now
Jacob Ferrufino It was so bad I cringed and laughed and created an abomination of a reaction.
Jacob Ferrufino nice
Jacob Ferrufino 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Don't go 😂😂
Jacob Ferrufino i did SEA what you did there. Dey see me rollin
I work at a sushi place while going to college, the chef makes it fresh to order, and love the California, shrimp tempera, red dragon, Las Vegas, salmon killer, Alaskan, spicy tuna, and spicy salmon rolls.
I'm just the waiter, but the chef is a family friend, he's spent years making sushi, and his rolls are really good, including the deep fried ones.
thegreatcalvinio what are red dragon, salmon killer and Alaskan rolls?
People out west really love the non-Japanese sushi and maki, eh.
Really Canada? Well that sushi name is misleading
Silver Sparrow But the guy is Japanese and must've came from Japan because I doubt they had apprenticeship in North America back then. Very misleading. Created by a Japanese, first manufactured in Canada, and sold in California.
well i live in vancouver and now im going to treat myself with those :)
AppleJuice I live in Cali, in the valley, just had sushi takeout last week. 🤗🍣🍣👌
AppleJuice Proud resident of Vancouver about to do the same thing.
The Good News Channel 24/7 baby, gotta love Vancouver
you know what else Canada made
Hawaiian pizza
And Mc flurrys
Get your shit together, Canada!
Canada lied about California and Hawaii. Must be something connected to U.S. since they are both U.S. states.
Victor Tizon so true
Triggered
I remember when I was little, I HATED sushi, but then I tried a salmon roll that my dad made me try, it literally changed my life
Same for me too… except I tried some spicy sushi
I had no idea Tojo invented the california roll. Mad respect. I've eaten at his restaurant a couple of times and will have to go back again now. No wonder there are so many sushi restaurants in vancouver (over 600 apparently). They are by far the most common type of restaurant.
"This very good!" 1:33 I love this guy ^^
1:33 "OhHHhh, this is a very gud!"
sTeP bY sTeP
dey luv it!
chef: *hides seaweed in sushi*
canadians: *wow i do not see the seaweed at all i will now eat it*
(no offence btw)
I’m a Canadian and at sushi restaurants I always look into the California roll and there is only like a few because many love them
I’m Canadian and I found that funny
no defence
@@patrickberrflims1254 yes me too :p
None taken
After watching Jiro Dreams of Sushi I see sushi very differently now
Chef Tojo sounds so nice, I just love hearing him talk about his life.
I went to Chef Tojo's restaurant a year ago, and all that I can say is that it is by far the best food that I have ever had. If in Vancouver and you have the chance to go there, don't pass up the opportunity to go, truly life-changing in terms of food
"So, why did you hide the nori?"
"Because, Americans think it's gross, and also, that's how I ROLL."
...
I'll see myself out.
Nah nah that was pretty good
Thank you… you just made me wanna try sushi.
0:37 Holt shit! That’s just amazing
well we should take it back for Canada. #canadaroll
Love this channel
Next thing you know Poutine was made by Japan.
0:37 I like him already..
Great Video!!
Sushi is my favorite food! You guys just made me hungry!
0:34 "I don't eat kelp, I don't even like seaweed."
His restaurant is in Vancouver BC :)
GVW63500 I live near there
It’s still there?
SEND ME THE COORDINATES
I'm doing a power point on Japan for my ALP amd these videos are so helpful!
Huh....fascinating! I was introduced to sushi very well by a friend who explained what I was about to eat, and how to eat it. Already was adventurous in my food choices from growing up in a very culturally mixed neighborhood, but it took me to my thirties before sushi entered my life. Never looked back!
Tojo is a cool guy
The most widely accepted view by food historians attributes the invention to Ichiro Mashita, sushi chef at the Tokyo Kaikan in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.[3] According to this account, Mashita began substituting avocado for toro (fatty tuna) in the off-season, and after further experimentation, developed the prototype, back in the 1960s[4][5][6] (or early 1970s[7]).
The early recipe used only frozen king crab legs, since surimi imitation crab was not yet available.[8] Cucumber, mayonnaise, and sesame seed were missing; these ingredients were all added later.[3]The original California roll was wrapped traditional style, with the nori seaweed on the outside, which American customers tended to peel off. So eventually the roll "inside-out", i.e. uramaki version was developed.[9] This adaptation has also been credited to Mashita by figures associated with the restaurant.[a][7]
A rivaling claim is that the California roll was actually created in Canada, by Chef Hidekazu Tojo, a Japanese native who moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in August 1971. Tojo insists he is the innovator of the "inside-out" sushi, and it got the name "California roll" because it was popular with patrons from Los Angeles.[10][11] His original claims of invention don't even touch on the use of avocado, essential to the California roll.[12]
The earliest documented claim for the invention of the California roll credits a chef named Ken Seusa at the Kin Jo sushi restaurant near Hollywood. The claim was made by Mrs. Fuji Wade, manager of the restaurant, and reported in an Associated Press news feed in 1979. Food writer Andrew F. Smith observes that this claim stood uncontested for more than 20 years.[13][14]
The AP story had appeared very shortly after the term "California Roll" was used in print, in the Los Angeles Times and an Ocala, Florida newspaper on November 25, 1979.[13] The California roll was featured by Gourmet magazine in 1980, and taken up by a restaurant critic for The New York Times the following year.[15]
After becoming a favorite in Southern California, the dish became popular all across the United States by the 1980s. The roll contributed to sushi's growing popularity in the United States by easing diners into more exotic sushi options.[16] Sushi chefs have since devised many kinds of rolls, beyond simple variations of the California roll.
Wig Wam this makes more sense especially when you consider the fact that avocados are much more common in California cuisine
I'm not so sure it's much of a lie (like your separate comment claims). It seems more like the Californian Tokyo guy got the avocado/ingredients and Tojo got the rolling method. Still interesting to see what's been dug up though.
haha Bro check out the wikipedia page again. Wikipedia is not a source.
Nice copy pasting
If you're going to plagiarize without crediting the original source, at least remove the citations.
I remember sushi being whispered about in Vancouver in - when? - early 80s? There was a place downtown called the Ichibankan, and our local Mensa newsletter announced than one of our female members would lead a foray into the strange world of sushi for those who wanted to sign up. I did, and it was a lot of fun. Two chefs standing in the middle of a conveyor kept it full of delicacies that traveled past the diners at nose height just back of the eating counter. Dishes were priced by the colour of plate they rested on, starting at about a dollar, maybe 75¢. No menu, just recommendations from fellow diners: "Those yellow ones on the grey trays - excellent!" When we were done, the hosts totted up our bills by the quantity and colours of your plates.
Never heard or saw of any such operation in years to come, but living just off North Vancouver's main drag today, I could literally hit a sushi joint with a pebble, walk to the end of the other block for another, and its peak, I could very nearly find one one every block from 20th to the seashore ("O").
Sushi's gone from exotic to everyday to not being special enough anymore to attract enough diners!
he sounds so wholesome i love this guy
an originally japanese food named after california that was invented in canada
dud wat?
Lol, I live in Canada 🇨🇦. I don’t know way I feel so proud XD
I’ve been to his restaurant, unreal meal !!! He’s such a nice guy too !! Snapped a picture with him
This is art and beautiful, this was my first sushi to be exact
I was the opposite, my first piece of sushi was a rainbow roll and since I'm used to eating raw things from Southeast Asia I figured it'll be good, been eating sushi once a week ever since.
1:07 just lol
I eat here at least 2x a week, the best Japanese food for sure in Canada and arguably the best in the world. Major respects to Tojo-San.
big respect for this man who made more people eat their california maki rolls!
That was the only thing my stomach allow me to eat when I was in the hospital, I'm so lucky that he invented that kind of sushi❤🙏🏻😊
Same. Unsalted Crackers and California rolls.
CANADA STOP WITH THE FRICKING NAME SWAPPING FIRST *HAWAIIAN* PIZZA NOW *CALIFORNIA* ROLL WHATS NEXT *ICELANDIC TACO*
(This isnt a angry comment)
chxrrixs looks angry
Icelandic taco
scp tato
@@sunfish1997 ePiC
They are not the only culprits in name swapping: Germany has two things with "Russian" in the name, Russischer Zupfkuchen and Russisch Brot, and none of these has anything to do with Russia... They aren't even known in Russia.
Ah, and @USA, do you know about German Chocolotae Cake....? Yeah, well, they don't know about it in Germany, sorry.
I thank this guy for making my fav food popular
Bless you chef Tojo
My life is a lie
Piggy bacon?
john son of Morris bacon comes from pigs?!?! 😮😂
Piggy don't have to hog it
john son of Morris we can share and pig out together
your telling me... that was my bro in that roll.
"Maybe Not All Thanks To Chef Tojo, But Definitely Partly."
That Was So Rude! Like Nobody Else Even Helped Him To Make Sushi Popular!
To be fair they are right, you also have to thank the people who spread it around.
So TWO of my favourite dishes was made where I live
chef tojo is my new favorite person
I'm so hungry. This is not helping
Then why did you click it in the first place?
Why is Canada so amazing? Shout out to Canada!
They didn’t invented it
Don't disrespect the syrup Gods! PS I am from canada
Thanks fam
Carson Nelder they didn’t but go off
Thanks my g
thank you so much
Great video btw! Quick and informative. But, I'm just here cringing at how the person held the chopsticks. 😂
Ok it is invented in Vancouver in Tojo sushi I’ve been there tastes VERY good but very overpriced the California roll cost more then 50$ for 6 piece
Really? Only 6 normal size bite sized sushi for $50?
Ppl back then: i dont like seaweed
Chef: makes seeaweed from the sushi inside out
Ppl:Oooh I love it~
I've met this guy before! He is super nice!
This made me so hungry
As a Californian, I do actually really like the California roll lmao
LOL its like with french fries
They're made originally from Belgium
sari bsunt ya
0:11 nah, I thought a subway surfers theme opera was about to start 😂😭
Shushi is just awesome
Welp, Looks
Like I’m Going To California Now,
Anyone Want To Join❤️
Let’s admit it: our first sushi was always a California roll. Now some of us are brave enough to try different and more outgoing and Japanese flavors but the first ever sushi that we tried was the basic California
Wow I just saw him being featured on Bizarre Foods America!!
I love California Rolls so much god Howe’s this man
This whole time I was living a lie
White girls be like
" Omg I love sushi!"
then when they order " I'llone tempura/cucumber/avocado/california roll?" Or they get really exotic and get a spicy tuna.
its still sushi..
@@ashleypeng207 Not real Sushi, that's like saying "I love Mexican food" and only eating Taco Bell
@@Cisco925 taco bell's food is still mexican food. Its just not authentic
@@marigorospe8636 Exactly, you can't say you love Mexican food if you've never had authentic Mexican food.
cisco c Well, you can but it just means you haven’t tried the traditional foods. There’s nothing wrong with liking foods that aren’t authentic.
I love these
Bless Chef Tojo 🙏🏼
Love the beaver tails,
love my icecapp,
love my poutine
WIKIPEDIA SAYS THIS IS A LIE.....
I looked it up it up, you decide... damn internet.
Wig Wam yes, wikipedia is the most accurate source you can find in the internet.
Wig Wam Yeah... I believe grew big story. Do you ever wonder why your teachers tell you not to use Wikipedia?
I love my
*grew big story* ᕕ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕗ
Yeah right, Canada. The land of avocados. NOT!
DarktrooperDalek yes but most stuff is protected from changing the info.
I love these things
My mouth is watering
1st
First
Hehe, second one already
Thanks to him we now how many yummy maki sushi ingredient combos in a roll and not only raw fish : O
Thank you chief Tojo !!!
Props to that guy for making sushi popular, but, on the other hand, screw that guy. Sushi is much less messy to eat with the seaweed on the outside. Plus, it just adds more cheap rice to the rice/(total sushi volume) ratio. Less yummy sushi fillers. And for the record, roasted seaweed is delicious, so screw those close-minded 70s consumers as well.
I’ve always like sushi it’s started when I was just 4 years
I just ate there in Vancouver. His restaurant is called Tojo’s and it is delicious.
This is my sushi journey
I love California rolls, there like my favorite type of sushi roll
I'm so happy that he got his recognition that's rare
I live in canada and i love California rolls sooooo good
When I was watching this I was drooling because I was so hungry
Thx to chef Tojo he is the best chef
My favourite kind of sushi roll❤
0:12 I thought it was the subways surfers theme song xD
inside-out technique itself was not his invention but a very minor rolling technique known from long ago.
but it was so great he knew the technique and adopted it to "california roll".
It's a gateway roll... I ate it and decided to try more. Now I'm addicted.
I want to know where in Canada it was made though! I'm from Ontario
My dad gets California rolls every week and it is my favorite sushi
my favorite sushi roll
My country surprised me once again
Great now I’m craving sushi
Wow. The things you learn everyday.
I owe this man everything.