Sushi...can you eat it post RNY and when?

Thanks all for the kind advice, I will certainly be trying the delights of Sushi when I am home in SA, fingers crossed it goes down with no issues!  Cheeries  Toni

I am really excited to have sushi post-op.... Since May, I've been used to having sushi at least biweekly, if not every Saturday night. But since I've been on this NUT diet for 4 wks (no meat whatsoever), I'm already craving it hardcore. I have read a few OHers who say they just don't like it as well as they did pre-op, but that's something everyone has to deal with. All of our taste buds change. I would say definitely watch out/avoid the rice, and I was also wondering if the nori/seaweed they use in a lot of rolls are problematic? It can get particularly sticky.... So, if you do want to do a roll over just sashimi, my best idea is to ask them to make a riceless cucumber roll with whatever ingredients you normally go for. The cucumber is pretty yummy, and holds up well as a roll. Another idea to go along with sashimi, if you like tuna, is tuna tataki. The sushi restaurant my brothers and I go to regularly has a tuna tataki appetizer that is yummy. Tataki is the seared on the outside, raw on the inside tuna. It would be more than enough for any post-op-er, the way I've had it. It's quite a large piece they sear, and slice, and place on top of a small bed of greens and ponzu sauce and radishes, lightly pickled cucumbers, etc. Aaaah..........the craving is back!

Thanks, I willcertainly keep that in mind....my Dad is pretty reasonable and is prepared for my "unusual requests" shouldnt be an issue at all!  I just wanna eat sushi now, all this talk about it!

I was craving sushi very badly about 3 months post-op. Actually started craving before that but that is when we went for it. My daughter and I have a favorite little "hole in the wall" sushi place we like to go to for lunch. The man who runs it can be very gruff. We affectionately call him the "sushi nazi" after Jerry Seinfield's soup nazi. He and I have had some very nice conversations though as he practices his english on me with a very heavy Japanese accent. I had planned on ordering sashimi and the seaweed salad because that is what I really wanted. I knew I couldn't eat the rice and I wouldn't dream of insulting the chef by picking apart his beautiful roll. The chef wouldn't fix the sashimi for me because he said it wouldn't be enough for me and it was too expensive. My daughter told him I couldn't eat the rice. He actually made my roll without rice. Wasn't that sweet of him?! He just took everything that would have been in my roll and rolled it in seaweed without the rice. He also very kindly informed me that sushi means rice. When we go now, we order one roll with rice and one without. I eat 1 small piece with rice and a couple without and my daughter has the rest. I have to have room for some of the seaweed salad - that I can never remember the name of.