Sushi

[daughtercell]

Okay, so this is less a post about cooking food than it is one about consuming it. :D

My boyfriend is rather obsessed with sushi, to the point of wanting to try a sushi-only restaurant sometime very soon. The problem is that due to my disability, my jaw opening is extremely small--to the tune of less than half an inch of space between my top and bottom teeth at its widest. This makes eating sushi very messy, embarrassing, and miserable for me. However, I do like the taste of it pretty well and would eat more if I could just get it in my damn mouth.

I'm still pretty novice in the kitchen and can barely throw together common (American) meals very well, much less trying to experiment with more exotic things, so I've never tried to make my own sushi (I guess you can do that?). I'm wondering if any of you who might be more familiar with it would know if it's possible to make even more bite-sized sushi (either the rolls or the other kind... my boyfriend would laugh at my ignorance :) ) so that I could actually fit it all in my mouth in one piece?

Thanks in advance!

Comments

[alumiere]

I second this; even if you don't sit at the sushi bar, call ahead or ask to talk to the chef and let him/her know you cannot handle full size bites. Since almost all sushi is made to order, accommodating your limitation should be no problem.

I'm deathly allergic to things that are grown in h2o - not just seafood, but seaweed, etc make me sick. And I can't have wheat, so no tempura either. But my best friends and partners all love sushi, and I've found that if I give them advance warning they'll prepare fresh veggies and maybe beef tataki for me, no problem.