I am a sushi lover! Doesn't matter what kind, I love it. Ever since my diagnosis, I have been extremely careful to only eat my sushi with gluten-free soy sauce since it's one of the first "hidden glutens" that you get warned about. I have no shame in taking my own personal dipping container of soy sauce with me no matter whether I'm having sushi at the fanciest of restaurants or at the hockey game.
Recently I have been eating more sushi than normal, particularly California rolls. Lately, I've also been feeling worse than normal. I'll spare you the gory details, but suffice it to say that things weren't "moving along" as they should. Now, this was typical of pre-diagnosis me, but I've gotten used to regularity and damn, it feels good!
Thanks to a server at Genji restaurant on Lisgar Street in Ottawa, I discovered the culprit:
Imitation crab meat. A gluten-free gal's nightmare.
We were at the restaurant and I had ordered my maki when the server came back to our table to ask why I had ordered all of my rolls without tempura. I guess she had a sneaking suspicion why but wanted to be sure. I told her of my issues and she informed me that two of the four rolls I had ordered had imitation crab meat in them which are not gluten free. At first I was shocked, but then everything made sense!
The regular server at my favourite all-you-can-eat sushi place called Hao Sushi on Merivale Road confirmed this information when he kindly checked the ingredient list on the imitation crab meat package for me just this past weekend. Gluten-free sushi lovers be warned!
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