Austin Sushi News #26 March, 2003 Welcome to Austin Sushi News, a friendly by-product of the sushi website for Austin, Texas, www.austinsushi.com Once every month or so, we bring you the latest scoop on sushi bars and related matters in Austin, Texas. You can UNsubscribe at any time by sending email to austin-maki-unsubscribe@austinsushi.com. Subscribe by going to www.austinsushi.com and clicking on the mailing list icon. If you have any problems, please send email to webmaster@austinsushi.com CONTENTS: 1. New Sushi Column Debuts! 2. Competition Heats Up On 183 3. The Sushi Seals Will Take America By Storm! 4. Austin Sushi Society On Hiatus WEB LINKS DEPARTMENT Crocheting sushi: http://www.getcrafty.com/read/craft/features/sushi Sushi Noise for Austin, Texas: http://www.austinsushi.com/forum Detailed sushi photos and discussion: http://rgmjapan.tripod.com/SUSHI.html All about rice: http://www.riceweb.org/Contents.htm ========================================================== 1. New Sushi Column Debuts! Austinsushi.com debuts a new column this month with a stunning three-part sushi crawl that takes the reader on a perilous eleven hour journey through the heart of Austinıs sushi industrial complex. ³La Vida Sushi² is the name of Jeremy Kraybillıs new column. He and his cohorts periodically binge on sushi and live to tell about it. Lots of PHOTOS too!!!!!!! http://www.austinsushi.com/columns ========================================================== 2. Competition Heats Up On 183 With the opening of a sushi bar inside of Kobe Japanese Steakhouse (www.kobeaustin.com), the corner of 183 and Anderson Mill Road has become an all-out sushi melee with Kobe joining Osaka on the Southwest corner, and Midori on the Northeast corner. Is there sufficient business to sustain them all? Only time will tell. And Speaking Of 183.... Various Austin Sushi News readers have pointed out that there's an "Iron Chef" sign up on a location currently under remodel at the Southwest corner of 183 and Burnet Road. Anyone with a clue about this new venue, please drop us a line. ========================================================== 3. The Sushi Seals Will Take America By Storm! ..or so this web site would lead you to believe. The Sushi Seals Family is a wildly popular animated series in Japan about a family of, well, sushi seals. They look sort of like seals, but also like pieces of sushi (see the web site for a picture). The web site sez: The sushi seals are a happy seal family that lives in today's times. The concept behind The Sushi Seals Family is "Teletubbies" meets "South Park"ı http://www.sigmaxent.com/television/sushi/about.asp ========================================================== 4. Austin Sushi Society On Hiatus Holly, progenitor of the ASS (Austin Sushi Society), writes that Austin Sushi Society meetings are on hiatus while she deals with a number of issues and builds her new website: www.hollyshothappenings.com Her events will soon be featured in a regular column in "In" pocket Magazine with an inaugural monthly issue coming out in April... ==========================================================