Welcome to our curated collection of sushi quotes, where the essence of Japan’s culinary artistry is captured in words. Sushi, with its delicate balance of flavors, meticulous preparation, and cultural significance, has captivated food lovers around the world. From renowned chefs to passionate enthusiasts, people have expressed their admiration, reverence, and even humor about this beloved dish through thoughtful quotes and anecdotes.
Sushi is not merely a meal; it’s an experience that embodies tradition, craftsmanship, and innovation. Whether you savor it for its simplicity or marvel at its complexity, sushi has a way of enticing the senses and fostering a deep appreciation for culinary excellence. As you embark on this journey through the world of sushi quotes, prepare to be inspired, entertained, and perhaps even surprised by the diverse perspectives and insights shared by individuals from all walks of life.
Without further ado, let these quotes whisk you away to the vibrant world of sushi, where every bite tells a story, and every moment is an opportunity to savor the beauty of Japanese gastronomy.
What I do gorge on is sushi. This is the only dish I don’t mind overindulging in. Sushmita Sen
You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef. Nobu Matsuhisa
One of my favorite cities is Tokyo because of sushi, and Asian food in general, but then also the way Tokyo operates, because it’s so clean, and there’s space for a lot of variety of stores. Lauv
One student was mixing my yoga up with other kinds, and I said, ‘No, you cannot do that.’ You cannot put calamari in the sushi and call it sushi. Bikram Choudhury
I like teff, an Ethiopian grain. It’s not so popular in the States yet, but it’s really good, almost like a porridge. And I love sushi, but it’s not always that healthy, so I don’t keep it at home. Landon Donovan
I’ve always worked with my partner, my husband, Cameron, since ‘Raw Like Sushi,’ and in a way, I feel very free with what I do, but he also has an amazing insight in having intuitions that tend to be right a lot of the time, about where we should go next. Neneh Cherry
I’m definitely a sushi person. I know I can eat a lot and still be fairly healthy. Holly Marie Combs
Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he’s been making his whole life, and he’s still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get. Anthony Bourdain
When I was 11 or 12 – a young boy in Japan – one of my older brothers took me to a sushi restaurant. I had never been to one, and it was very memorable. Back then, sushi was expensive and hard to come by, not like today, when there’s a sushi restaurant on every street corner and you can buy it in supermarkets. Nobu Matsuhisa
I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well. Jennifer Morrison
I love sushi. A well made roll with just enough vinegar tang has always been a lifesaving post-bourbon remedy for me. Mark Brand
I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside. Anthony Bourdain
I’m a big sushi fan. Gail Kim
In Japanese, sushi does not mean raw fish. It means seasoned rice. Guy Fieri
I’ve actually always been a big fan of seafood. Sushi is one my favorite things. Alexander Gould
People who live in North Korea, they die for food, but living in the free world, the cat even eats expensive sushi. Lee Hyeon-seo
Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee. Daniel Pauly
BottleRock has these incredible VIP cabins where a chef is preparing sushi for you in your cabin or lounge decorated by Restoration Hardware. Michael Rapino
Sushi is taking over the world. It’s like pizza: you can get it everywhere. Joel Robuchon
Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there’s nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time. Francesca Annis
Parents who don’t like Success should find a school they do like. For someone to enroll their child at Success and insist we change our model is like a person walking into a pizzeria and demanding sushi. If you want sushi, go to a sushi restaurant! Eva Moskowitz
I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way of describing the insides of David Hasselhoff. He is like a protein, clean and easy. That’s how I feel about myself. David Hasselhoff
I’m not a big chicken or meat eater, but sometimes I’ll eat it if it’s locally raised. The family dinner will be stir-fry, or we’ll roll our own sushi with brown rice, spinach, salmon, sesame oil, sesame seeds, and seaweed. The kids love it! Alysia Reiner
L.A., it’s nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps. Jimmy Fallon
Sushi is one of my favorite foods. Dylan Penn
A sushi chef has to spot the best-quality fresh fish instantly. Nobu Matsuhisa
Although, I didn’t really like sushi until I moved out to L.A. Scott Wolf
When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant – sushi restaurant. Masaharu Morimoto
I’m quite happy having stuff like quinoa, sushi, and even vegetable juices. Deepika Padukone
Asking Siri where the nearest sushi bar is – that’s not interesting. What’s interesting is asking your phone where one of your friends have last had dinner in the neighborhood, or having it recommend a cool paella place in Barcelona because it knows you eat paella all the time at home. Dennis Crowley
A lot of people who like sushi don’t really like raw fish or seaweed. Guy Fieri
It’s better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you’ll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi. Patricia Marx
I’m always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi. Jean Pigozzi
The year 2014 was a big year for my taste buds. They really stepped up their game. Like, I got into red wine, coffee and sushi for the first time. Well done, George. George Ezra
Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time – that’s enough. Then sushi restaurant – butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy. Masaharu Morimoto
California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I’m eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I’m a Cali girl through and through. Drew Barrymore
Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn’t do with anything else, we just have to do it. Mark Zuckerberg
My ideal night would probably be a dope outfit, people that I love around me. Go to get some dinner, have some amazing food. Maybe sushi or Italian: I love both. Bebe Rexha
I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything. Kate Beckinsale
I play golf, but sometimes it’s so un-relaxing, I have to play tennis to wind down. Now that I think about it, this process is sort of like when I go out for sushi and have to get a slice of pizza afterward. Adam Ross
Sushi is my favorite thing to do in L.A. Liam Hemsworth
In LA, I live on sushi or salad. Denise Van Outen
I am a big foodie so I enjoy everything including dim sums aand sushi, but pani puri is one thing that really makes my mouth water. Tulsi Kumar
I think I’ve grown up in a mixed environment, and maybe a lot of the time I haven’t really belonged anywhere in the way I’ve dreamt of belonging to, you know, living on the street and playing to all the kids on the street, growing up together. I suppose ‘Raw Like Sushi’ was a place where all of those things could come together. Neneh Cherry
I do have very high customer service standards – I’d send back sushi because it’s too fishy. Greg McHugh
Sushi is something very exclusive. It is not like a McDonald’s, not like a hot dog, not like a French fry. It’s very high-class cooking in Japan. Nobu Matsuhisa
I don’t discriminate against sushi. It’s all good in my book. Billy Horschel
In places where people read hardcover books and eat sushi, they’re not signing a five-year-old up to tackle another five-year-old. Chris Borland
Chicken parm is my favorite. I’m not a big fan of sushi. Marty Walsh
Everyone in L.A. loves sushi, and I don’t understand it at all. Ella Mai
After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid. Robyn Hitchcock
I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that’s very simple on the digestive system – I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too – sushi, sashimi and miso soup. Shilpa Shetty
You’ll always find me at a good sushi spot. Once, at a restaurant, a cook came out from the kitchen and asked for a picture with me. That was flattering. Charlotte McKinney
I want a house with a garden, but slap bang in the centre of London. Next door to a sushi bar. Michelle Dockery
In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans. Martin Yan
One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it’s really fun to do. Carly Rae Jepsen
In fact one of the main reasons I head out to Los Angeles quite a bit is because they have the most amazing sushi bar in the world. Chesney Hawkes
I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn’t give it up. Victoria Pendleton
My daily diet consists of basically anything I think looks tasty, whether that’s pizza, sushi, burgers, quesadillas. I like everything. Cameron Dallas
It was a difficult but wonderful balance to go from big budget, big craziness, everyone’s giant trailers, everyone’s sushi lunches, to a $4 million movie. Nancy Juvonen
When ‘Raw Like Sushi’ came out in the U.S., I wasn’t considered to be black enough. They didn’t really know where to put me. The music wasn’t ‘black black’ sounding. It wasn’t R&B; it wasn’t straight up hip-hop, although obviously in that dimension and world. Neneh Cherry
I love Somali foods like canjeero, a pancakelike bread; same for pizza, burgers, and sushi. Halima Aden
I could probably eat sushi every day. Eric McCormack
If it’s time to indulge, I love desserts, especially Hershey’s chocolate. I also love sushi and Japanese food. Food is my favorite in general. Nathan Chen
There is something that has become part of my routine that I eat two or three times a week. Sushi. It exists in Europe but isn’t very popular, and especially in L.A., I started eating it. It’s both tasty and healthy. Marko Jaric
I love to eat sushi, and, you know, those flavors and wasabi and really eating spoonfuls of it… I would just mix it and put it on everything, literally. David Chang
Just remember the letter ‘S’: salads, stir fries, scrambles, soups, smoothies and sushi. You can’t go wrong with the letter ‘S.’ Harley Pasternak
I love sushi. Once on Valentine’s Day, someone I was dating rocked up at the airport to pick me up with a bag of salmon because I love it so much. Ella Eyre
You know, there are times when you play a song over and over and over and you get a little tired of it and you let it sit for a while. It’s like, you may love eating sushi, but if you eat it every single day, you’re going to get a little tired of it. Les Claypool
Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it. Camren Bicondova
I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I’m obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus. Shawn Johnson
I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn’t been cooked. Amy Lee
Every year, I do a New Year’s day party at my home. I invite my staff and my friends and their kids. Around 40-50 people come by, and I do a barbecue and salads, steak and sushi, and also lots of cheese. Nobu Matsuhisa
Don’t dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don’t mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice. Anthony Bourdain
You come to these thresholds in your life where you need to remember why you do what you do, to reconnect with yourself. When I look back at something like ‘Raw Like Sushi,’ I think I was very much in the right place at the right time. Neneh Cherry
I had eel at a sushi bar once; it’s disgusting. I thought it was chicken. It looked like chicken. It was brown and looked delicious, and I was like, ‘That looks safe.’ It wasn’t. Chris Evans
I love sushi. Sophie Dahl
I remember my first acting class: I was like, ‘That’s it.’ If I know that I want to do something then I’m going to do it and there’s no stopping me, whether it’s if I want to take a movie part or don’t, or eat sushi for lunch or don’t. There’s always a very clear goal. Once I figure out what I want that’s it. Ashley Greene
I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It’s usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight. Canelo Alvarez
Kids are now eating things like edamame and sushi. I didn’t know what shiitake mushrooms were when I was 10 – most kids today do. Emeril Lagasse
Aphorisms are food for thought – like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough. James Geary
Tuesday nights are sushi nights, so we go out then. Al Roker
In my generation, there was no sushi school, no cooking school, so people have to learn from working. Nobu Matsuhisa
With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much. Nobu Matsuhisa
I’m a big fish eater. Salmon – I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I’m not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I’m beginning to like it more. I don’t like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything. Elle Fanning
I never want to make one type of music. You wouldn’t just eat sushi for the rest of your life – there’s so much more food. Slowthai
People forget that in early 1970s, there were 3 sushi bars in New York City. Three. Three. Think about that. Now, there is sushi in… I’ve eaten it – there is sushi at gas stations in Middle America. Andrew Zimmern
Forget sushi, yakitori and tempura, ramen is what really gets the Japanese excited. Rachel Khoo
I’m a huge sushi fan. I have it every couple of days. Victoria Justice
The first time I had sushi, I hated it. And the second time was no different, and then, I just started loving it. I actually crave for sushi. It’s one of the healthiest meals. My experiments with food began when I was working in New York as an architect, be it Korean or Ethiopian food or fusion food. Riteish Deshmukh
I’m into the food in Vegas. I’m willing to go to nice restaurants for sushi and stuff like that. Britney Spears
My non-Chinese food favorite… can I say sushi? It’s still Asian. Gok Wan
We grew up in Texas. We ate fried chicken and steak all the time. I didn’t eat sushi until I was 24. Arden Cho
I love sushi. Michael Sorrentino
I’m obsessed with sushi. Emma Roberts
The place that I always come for the best Sushi in Delhi is Sakae Sushi at the Ambience mall, Vasant Kunj. Priyanshu Chatterjee
Think of the sushi trend that started in the ’80s. It was as much about the Nintendo entertainment system in your living room as it was about the availability of good-quality raw fish. The Japanese food trend rose as the world of Japanese business and culture was becoming a bigger part of American life. David Sax
At one point in time I was eating sushi like five days a week. Riff Raff
In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. Masa Takayama
Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. Nobu Matsuhisa