One Meal: What’s that you say? Baked sushi?
Photo and text by Douglas Imbrogno
It’s a choice every person has to make who is on the prowl for a decent lunch in Charleston: Do I want baked sushi today? Well, honestly, I’d never heard of baked sushi. Yet there it was, chalked on the ’specials of the day’ board at Fuji’s across from the Town Center Mall entrance last week. What is basked sushi, I queried various waitresses (it’s always good to triangulate responses about a new dish from several waitstaff.) ‘It’s like sushi pizza,’ they said. This concept is not necessarily an attractive one. But instead of my tried-and-true Fuji’s regimen of California roll and radish roll, I sprung for the thing: salmon layered on rice, layered on seaweed, topped with mozzarella and parmesan cheeses and tomatoes. I know, it doesn’t sound like something human beings should eat — cats, maybe. But it was quite edible and I’d get it again. And therein lies a tale about the future of Fuji’s. Read on below.
