<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/064ce70b-dca7-4e11-9b03-223e36c4d52b/AF347130-7982-4251-BB34-4F546BED8D4B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.tofugu.com/2008/11/06/obama-city-japan-celebrates-for-some-reason/" href="http://www.tofugu.com/2008/11/06/obama-city-japan-celebrates-for-some-reason/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.tofugu.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tofugu.com/2008/11/06/obama-city-japan-celebrates-for-some-reason/"><H2><A title="Obama Sushi" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.tofugu.com/2009/02/18/obama-sushi/">Obama Sushi</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tofugu.com/2008/11/06/obama-city-japan-celebrates-for-some-reason/">The Japanese just can’t get enough of Obama.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tofugu.com/2008/11/06/obama-city-japan-celebrates-for-some-reason/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.tofugu.com/img/2F5C9B90-005F-46F4-81EC-98165F54B65D" alt="obama-sushi" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tofugu.com/2008/11/06/obama-city-japan-celebrates-for-some-reason/">It doesn’t stop with his face, though, which is made from small shrimp and rice for the skin, black sesame seeds for the hair, and processed fish paste for the teeth (so <EM>that’s</EM> how he keeps his teeth so shiny white!). Let’s take a look at the final product, plus how all the little pieces were made.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tofugu.com/2008/11/06/obama-city-japan-celebrates-for-some-reason/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.tofugu.com/img/2ABF1675-08F8-40AA-9447-19EC61764910" alt="obama-sushi-car" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tofugu.com/2008/11/06/obama-city-japan-celebrates-for-some-reason/">This right here, though it doesn’t quite look it, is one of several cars which appear on the main platter. The window is made of cucumber, and the lights are made from mountain burdock root</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tofugu.com/2008/11/06/obama-city-japan-celebrates-for-some-reason/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.tofugu.com/img/0A96F674-7DC6-4FA8-A00F-20F4C0237FF4" alt="american-flag-sushi" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tofugu.com/2008/11/06/obama-city-japan-celebrates-for-some-reason/">The American flag portion was made with lots of raw fish (what else?). The red stripes are made from Tuna, and the white made from raw squid.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tofugu.com/2008/11/06/obama-city-japan-celebrates-for-some-reason/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.tofugu.com/img/51E78C34-29C4-44BF-9F36-EE79AA0A280C" alt="usa" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tofugu.com/2008/11/06/obama-city-japan-celebrates-for-some-reason/">Of course, nothing is complete without a big “USA” somewhere in it. To do this, leftover cooked egg was put in a food processor (will it blend?) with some rice.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tofugu.com/2008/11/06/obama-city-japan-celebrates-for-some-reason/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.tofugu.com/img/8D4602CB-2E10-4F5C-A108-124417A9866D" alt="smiley" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tofugu.com/2008/11/06/obama-city-japan-celebrates-for-some-reason/">Also made from the “yellow rice” were these smiley faces.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tofugu.com/2008/11/06/obama-city-japan-celebrates-for-some-reason/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.tofugu.com/img/BDEBC549-22FC-443D-B015-0CE7A066FBCB" alt="obama-sushi2" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tofugu.com/2008/11/06/obama-city-japan-celebrates-for-some-reason/">There it is with the master himself (Mr. Kawazumi).</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AF347130-7982-4251-BB34-4F546BED8D4B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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