On Friday I recorded a fun little spot for “ABC World News with Charles Gibson” on how to eat sushi at a sushi bar. At left you can see ABC correspondent Miguel Marquez and me stuffing Spanish-mackerel
nigiri in our mouths. We discussed the dos and don’ts of wasabi, ginger, chopsticks, etc. Watch the video
here.
We filmed the segment at Sushi Go 55, a little sushi bar upstairs in a mall in Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles. You’d never know it, but Sushi Go 55 probably represents the oldest sushi operation in the United States—it’s run by the Morishita family, which opened the second sushi bar in America back in the 1960s, called Eigiku.
Filming with Miguel and the ABC crew was a blast, and the sushi we ate at Sushi Go 55 was fantastic. I have to say, though, the real highlight for me was meeting Tomoko Morishita, who was probably the first female sushi chef in America. She now manages the operation at Sushi Go 55 and leaves the sushi-making to others. I’ll be adding her soon to my list of “
Pioneering Women in the World of Sushi.”
Here are some more pics of the filming:
