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Wasabi plants?

  • 16-08-2015 6:27pm
    #1
    Wright
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭


    Anyone ever seen wasabi plants for sale? Potted, a few of them in a tray would be great. I'm in Dublin if that helps.


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  • #2
    rje66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭rje66


    From what I gather they are very difficult to grow, thus the high price of 'real wasabi' in Japan. What we get as wwasabi is dyed horseradish.


  • #3
    Wright
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭Wright


    But, only wasabi hits you in the nose; horseradish doesn't do this?


  • #4
    magicbastarder
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    wasabi is extremely hard to grow, and only grows in running water. you will not find it for sale in ireland; there's no market for it, and the japanese have been extremely defensive of their near monopoly for many years.

    the chances of anything marked (in ireland) as being wasabi *actually* being wasabi are slim.


  • #5
    Wright
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭Wright


    That's interesting, how they grow. Never did see them potted while I lived over in Japan, that explains it.

    Any wasabi I've had here is definitely wasabi though.


  • #6
    magicbastarder
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    almost certainly not. the vast majority of what is sold as wasabi in ireland is a mixture of horseradish, mustard and dye.
    The first thing to know about wasabi - or Wasabia japonica, as it's officially known - is that you have probably never tried the real thing.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29082091


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  • #7
    Hocus Focus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭Hocus Focus


    Hi, I registered at least a couple of months ago, read all the terms &conditions etc and I'm pretty certain I have already commented on posts, I don't know why I am getting this message now.


  • #8
    Speedwell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    almost certainly not. the vast majority of what is sold as wasabi in ireland is a mixture of horseradish, mustard and dye.[/url]

    This is absolutely true; in a pinch I've mixed up a batch myself.


  • #9
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,895 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Hocus Focus wrote: »
    Hi, I registered at least a couple of months ago, read all the terms &conditions etc and I'm pretty certain I have already commented on posts, I don't know why I am getting this message now.
    that you thought the wasabi you were eating was the real deal?


  • #10
    Wright
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭Wright


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    that you thought the wasabi you were eating was the real deal?

    There's plenty of wasabi kicking around Dublin and elsewhere. If it hits you in the nose its wasabi not horseradish.


  • #11
    Yi Harr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Yi Harr


    http://www.thewasabicompany.co.uk/buy/plants/young-wasabi-plant

    Delivery within the EU/Ireland is quite expensive though.


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  • #12
    Wright
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭Wright


    Yi Harr wrote: »
    http://www.thewasabicompany.co.uk/buy/plants/young-wasabi-plant

    Delivery within the EU/Ireland is quite expensive though.

    Awesome! Muchos gracias!


  • #13
    lk67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 477 ✭✭lk67


    Wright wrote: »
    There's plenty of wasabi kicking around Dublin and elsewhere. If it hits you in the nose its wasabi not horseradish.

    .... but mustard has the same effect, that's why it's in almost all of the 'wasabi' product available outside of Japan. Mind you, some have a teeny tiny bit of actual wasabi in them so that they can call them a wasabi product.


  • #14
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,895 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    exactly. go eat a teaspoon of english mustard and you'll get it in the nose.


  • #15
    Wright
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭Wright


    lk67 wrote: »
    .... but mustard has the same effect, that's why it's in almost all of the 'wasabi' product available outside of Japan. Mind you, some have a teeny tiny bit of actual wasabi in them so that they can call them a wasabi product.

    Huh. Mustard has never hit me in the nose in my life. Weird.


  • #16
    lk67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 477 ✭✭lk67


    Wright wrote: »
    Huh. Mustard has never hit me in the nose in my life. Weird.

    I think you've been trying the wrong mustards!

    :D

    It's even an old cure for sinus problems and colds.


  • #17
    Hocus Focus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭Hocus Focus


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    that you thought the wasabi you were eating was the real deal?
    No. When I clicked on this thread there was a message at the top saying that as a newbie I had to read the rules and if I was from the media I had to go to a different forum etc.


  • #18
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,737 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    lk67 wrote: »
    .... but mustard has the same effect, that's why it's in almost all of the 'wasabi' product available outside of Japan. Mind you, some have a teeny tiny bit of actual wasabi in them so that they can call them a wasabi product.

    Yep, most of the stuff outside Japan is a mix of horseradish, mustard, and dye.


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