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  Which sushi has the lowest mercury levels? highest? Over-fished?

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The City of Austin
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The Hottest New Rice Cooker. Yow!
The Zojirushi heat induction technology model
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Austin Sushi News #40, March 2005

Keroppi 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 webmaster@austinsushi.com or by going to our Google Groups mailing list home. Subscribe by going to www.austinsushi.com and filling in the mailing list box. If you have any problems, please send email to webmaster@austinsushi.com.

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New Mailing List Home

I've moved our exclusive and very private mailing list over to Google Groups. This will result in higher reliability, better management, and still -- no spam! We won't be using Google Groups for anything except this mailing list. All the usual action happens at AustinSushi.com. And lest I forget -- welcome new subscribers (yes, I signed you up)!

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All You Can Eat Sushi - $20

When it comes to inexpensive sushi, I'm a skeptic. Let's face it folks, eating raw fish is serious business, and when the prices get low, the quality control usually follows. Nevertheless, when our favorite ambient sushi DJ, Aaron Morris, informed us that Sake On Sixth had an all-you-can-eat sushi deal every Thursday night for only $20, we had to check it out.

Guess what? It wasn't too bad. In fact, it's a pretty good deal that probably won't last. Check it out....

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Maiko Redux

I've had a couple of positive experiences at Maiko, the new swanky sushi bar in town. Despite the somewhat bizarre noise in the AustinSushi.com forums, Maiko has not yet had an official grand opening and is still getting their wait staff up to speed.sushi

So, dude, cut them some slack, k?

They really should get their website together, though.

Maiko
311 W. 6th Street
Austin, Texas 78701
(512) 236-9888

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New Whole Foods Sushi

The new flagship Whole Foods at 6th and Lamar has one-upped HEB Central Market by not only having in-store sushi chefs, but also having a sitdown sushi bar as well. They call it Sixth Street Sushi and it's open from 11am to 8pm every day in their food "court." They have a pretty standard selection of maki and nigiri at prices you'd expect from many sushi bars around town -- $4 for two pieces of ebi nigiri and $10.95 for a Caterpillar Roll, for example. sushi

No word yet on whether Sixth Street Sushi is run by Whole Foods or by the California firm they contract to make their take-out sushi: Kikka Sushi.

Whole Foods
6th and Lamar Blvd
Austin, Texas 78701
(512) 476-1206

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