Sushi Confidential: Proof

Sushi Confidential

You tell me. When’s the last time you tied your shoes in a different way?

It’s not that we’re set in our way, although that can be the case. I suppose the better question is, do you continually refine and question your methods so that you can be more efficient, faster, produce a better product?

I do mean this to you, dear reader, for your craft. And yes I am the exact same way as a writer.

I love this picture. I fuck around a lot at work, crack jokes, ridicule my colleagues as they do in return. Yet I take the work very seriously. So the idea of stopping to take a picture is strange. And I think I have one picture from the restaurant’s previous location. This was courtesy of a friend’s wife, because I asked her. Happy I did.

Always looking for ways to improve and there’s room for flexibility, but there are some universals in technique and this photo perfectly illustrates my point. The workflow hierarchy would be on the far right the boss, Keichii Ando and then his daughter who will eventually take over, Chiaki, myself, and then Reed. God bless him just standing there.

It’s funny that we’re all relatively the same height and notice the body position, the angles. We’re all right handed. Notice we’re in a stance, all slightly lower than Reed who is standing up straight?

Get into an active stance. Steph Curry doesn’t just stand waiting for the pass. He sets his body, eyes on the ball, ready so he can catch and release.

Don’t cut diagonally, standing facing the board. For the right-handed, turn so that your left hip is closest to the board so you’re cutting perpendicularly, minding your elbow just in case someone is behind you. Whatever you’re cutting, keep it closer to the edge.

Every meticulous detail drilled into habit by a neurotic OCD until it's second nature.

One thing you can't deny is the camaraderie. When you act as a unit, in sync, communication in perfect flow...and yeah mirrored images are cool.

Best,

E

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