Green Tea instead of Pixie Sticks

[colormist]

I just went to the sushi place next door for lunch. I don't really like sushi, but since I don't really have much of a choice in what I eat, I tend to eat anything that doesn't make me sick. Deciding to test my luck, I tried the "soy sauce", which was not soy sauce. Or at least, not the salty soy sauce that I'm use to. It took me a few rolls to figure out that the sweet taste was not in the sushi, but rather the soy sauce.

I stopped eating it, but ended up sick less than an hour later. I was munching on smarties to get my dextrose to balance out the nausea, but they weren't working. I had mentioned to my coworker how green tea tends to detox my system from the sugar. She recommended I go get some green tea from the breakroom to see if it would work. It did. I don't know if it was the mixture of dextrose and green tea, but nary 15 minutes later, I noticed I wasn't nearly as nauseated as before.

Has anyone else tried green tea instead of glucose to get rid of the queasies?

In other news, if you're in need of guaranteed fructose-free foods when you're out on the town, Japanese/sushi places are pretty much sugar free. The rolls are pretty bland without soy sauce, but they are edible. Miso soup is good, too.

[sarahk]

Do you eat stickie rice- is usually made with sugar

[colormist]

Ahhhh, so the rice is made with sugar! I was wondering how they got it to stick together like that. The odd part is, it doesn't taste sweet. I'll have to look into it.

[sarahk]

If you do a google search for sushi rice recipes you'll see they use sugar and rice-vinegar--which also has sugar. I'm guessing the vinegar nuetralizes the taste of the sugar.

You seem to be an expereinced cook, perhaps you can figure out a way to make it. I tried, but couldn't get the same sticky-consistency.

[sarahk]

Maybe that's why I drink soooo much green tea