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By David Chang and Peter Meehan
Published 2009
We started messing around with this combination at Noodle Bar, but it only coalesced at Ssäm. The inspiration was sushi, the kind of everyday sushi we eat in America: raw fish with a horseradish and soya bean purée that’s passed off as wasabi. (The horseradish adds pungency; the soya beans make it green like real wasabi.) We thought we’d amp up the horseradish and edamame, bring them out front. We garnish this with furikake, a crunchy, salty, delicious packaged Japanese “rice seasoni