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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wasabi
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wasabi

herb root used in cooking, 1903, from Japanese.

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wasabi

n. 1 A pungent green Japanese condiment made from the plant (taxlink Eutrema japonica species noshow=1) (formerly (taxlink Wasabia japonica species noshow=1). 2 An imitation of this condiment made from horseradish with green dye.

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Wasabi

is a plant of the Brassicaceae family, which includes cabbages, horseradish, and mustard. It is also called Japanese horseradish, although horseradish is a different plant (which is generally used as a substitute for wasabi, due to the scarcity of the wasabi plant). Its stem is used as a condiment and has an extremely strong pungency more akin to hot mustard than the capsaicin in a chili pepper, producing vapours that stimulate the nasal passages more than the tongue. The plant grows naturally along stream beds in mountain river valleys in Japan. The two main cultivars in the marketplace are E. japonicum 'Daruma' and 'Mazuma', but there are many others. The origin of wasabi cuisine has been clarified from the oldest historical records; it takes its rise in Nara prefecture.

Wasabi (film)

Wasabi is a 2001 French action-comedy film directed by Gérard Krawczyk and written and produced by Luc Besson. The film stars Jean Reno, Michel Muller and Ryōko Hirosue. In France, it was released as Wasabi, la petite moutarde qui monte au nez ("Wasabi, the little mustard that gets right up your nose"). In South Korea, the title was mistranslated to Leon: the professional 2.

The film gets its title from a scene where the protagonist, Hubert Fiorentini (Reno), eats a whole serving of wasabi at a Japanese restaurant without flinching.

WASABI (software)

WASABI is a simulation software that aims to simulate emotions for computer systems, esp. embodied agents and social robots. Its development is motivated by the ideas behind Affective Computing in that it tries to simulate human affect. It provides a graphical user interface based on Qt. It is free software under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Wasabi (disambiguation)

Wasabi (Latin name Wasabia japonica) is also called Japanese horseradish.

Wasabi may also refer to:

Wasabi (song)

"Wasabi" is a song written by Barbara Hannan, Adrian Hannan, Tommy Rando and Emma Graham, produced by Adrian Hannan for Lee Harding's debut album What's Wrong with This Picture?.

Harding's debut single is a double A-side featuring "Wasabi" and Lee's version of " Eye of the Tiger" (originally by Survivor).

Wasabi (restaurant)

Wasabi is a UK fast food restaurant chain, focused on Japanese food, especially sushi and bento, and operating in London and New York.

Wasabi was founded in London in 2003 by the Korean, Dong Hyun Kim.

As of January 2015, they had 37 outlets in central London, and had opened their first one in New York. In June 2015, they opened in Cambridge.

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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.