I thought of you! (Vinnie's, that hot dog place on Rt. 1? They turned into a Rita's custard shop and a fried seafood place. Not bad, and they have lobster rolls!)
If spicy then mayo and cayenne pepper powder spread on rice on top of nori. Tempura is deep fried, rolled in rice and nori and sprinkled with eel sauce. a regular lobster roll is lobster, cuke and avocado rolled in rice and nori.
Oishii (in Chestnut Hill and Sudbury) does a fine lobster roll, but without the avocado (and I think with watercress), so I suspect that there isn't that much consistency on what constitutes a "regular" lobster roll. Also, the spicy ones I've seen don't use cayenne pepper powder; they have spicy sauce, probably on a mayo base.
In any case, I tend to see them written as "lobster maki", possibly to discourage people from thinking they're going to be getting something served in bread :) See, for example: http://www.nishnash.com/menus/view.php?r=r10766
Have you had lobster sashimi? One of our friends ordered it at Fugayku in Brookline. It was excellent, but we found that having the lobster arrive at the table still twitching was a bit overwhelming.
I think I would have said lobster maki if I had that in mind. :)
In any case, he and I are being pedants at each other in comments. He's much funnier than I am; I'm just riffing.
Moreover, there's nowhere near as much controversy as to what goes into a lobster maki. I think partly it's because the Atlantic lobster isn't a part of traditional Japanese cuisine. But even the Japanese Spiny Lobster, which is part of traditional Japanese cuisine, isn't normally served as maki. Or so says http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/イセエビ, which mentions a variety of ways to prepare spiny lobster, none of them as maki.
so i am answering "what is a lobster roll" not because i do not know what a lobster roll is (duh) but because i think either butter or mayo is acceptable -- they are both happy variations -- and so "what is a lobster roll" makes a good question along the lines of "what's in a name"...
On the other hand, a remarkable number of people did not know what one was. (And a fair number of those, apparently, thought it involved nori and or sushi rice. Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
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Date: 2007-06-06 09:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-06 09:48 pm (UTC)Yum.
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Date: 2007-06-06 11:53 pm (UTC)--Adam, who hasn't had a lobster roll in far too long (might be as long as a year)
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Date: 2007-06-07 12:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-07 01:17 am (UTC)If spicy then mayo and cayenne pepper powder spread on rice on top of nori.
Tempura is deep fried, rolled in rice and nori and sprinkled with eel sauce.
a regular lobster roll is lobster, cuke and avocado rolled in rice and nori.
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Date: 2007-06-07 02:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-07 05:29 am (UTC)In any case, I tend to see them written as "lobster maki", possibly to discourage people from thinking they're going to be getting something served in bread :) See, for example: http://www.nishnash.com/menus/view.php?r=r10766
Have you had lobster sashimi? One of our friends ordered it at Fugayku in Brookline. It was excellent, but we found that having the lobster arrive at the table still twitching was a bit overwhelming.
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Date: 2007-06-07 05:42 am (UTC)In any case, he and I are being pedants at each other in comments. He's much funnier than I am; I'm just riffing.
Moreover, there's nowhere near as much controversy as to what goes into a lobster maki. I think partly it's because the Atlantic lobster isn't a part of traditional Japanese cuisine. But even the Japanese Spiny Lobster, which is part of traditional Japanese cuisine, isn't normally served as maki. Or so says http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/イセエビ, which mentions a variety of ways to prepare spiny lobster, none of them as maki.
Alas. Might have made a funny followup poll.
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Date: 2007-06-07 05:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-07 04:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-07 05:12 am (UTC)On the other hand, a remarkable number of people did not know what one was. (And a fair number of those, apparently, thought it involved nori and or sushi rice. Not that there's anything wrong with that.)