Pungent green root, used in Japanese cooking

Usage examples of wasabi.

They were there, filled with a wasabi, pickled ginger, and mascarpone cheese mixture and twisted into little bags, ready to be fried.

We were getting pelted with beer nuts and wasabi peas, and I could see casino security at the door, trying to make its way through the crowd.

To have it read to you by an author on a podium, first thing in the morning, during a conference on fairy tales, must on reflection have been, for the listeners, a rather extreme experience, like taking a gulp of something they thought was coffee, and finding that someone had laced it with wasabi, or with blood.

I eat is sushi-grade ahi grilled medium rare with a litt16 wasabi on the side.

Usually I have wasabi peas and beer nuts for breakfast when I stay here, but we ate them last night.

And wasabi mustard, which looked to me like the split-pea puree found in Lebanese restaurants.

The best wasabi grows on the Izu Peninsula, southwest of Tokyo, is very expensive, and should be grated right before you use it.

It even has its own tool, oroshigane, which it shares with wasabi horseradish, and has been used for centuries.

Heaven had three Japanese tea bowls and Stephanie had put the wasabi, pickled ginger, and soy sauce in those.

Hastet had spiked the guacamole with wasabi or some otherworldly equivalent.

I called Mark Lander to see if he could send anyone our way before he left for France but his two-year-old was screaming like a banshee because she snuck a gob of wasabi out of his take-out sushi tray.