You’ve been eating sushi WRONG! Radio host shares his ‘game-changing’ hack in viral video… but fans notice a rather unsettling detail
A Sydney radio presenter claims to have discovered the ‘correct’ way to apply soy sauce and wasabi to take-away sushi rolls.
Will McMahon, who co-hosts KIIS FM’s drive show Will & Woody, says the secret to eating sushi properly is actually revealed by the shape of the soy sauce packet.
Most plastic soy sauce packets are shaped like fish, with a tubular mouth for the liquid to come out, a body for squeezing out the contents, and a flat tail.
Game-changing hack: Sydney radio presenter Will McMahon claims to have discovered the ‘correct’ way to apply soy sauce and wasabi to take-away sushi rolls
Will said in a viral video shared to Instagram on Thursday that most people ignore the tail or assume it’s only there for decorative purposes.
But he insists it has a practical purpose: for scooping up and spreading the wasabi evenly across the sushi roll.
‘So, for a long time people have been wondering why soy sauce comes in a fish. I think I just figured out why,’ he said, demonstrating the technique at a food court.
‘The top is obviously for your general saucing of the roll. But the bottom actually is used as a perfect spade to apply the wasabi to the roll.’
Not everyone was impressed by Will’s hack, however, with some noting that his method of applying the soy sauce was incorrect.
Will squirted the sauce on the top of the roll, rather than pushing the nozzle of the fish packet into the roll and filling the inside with soy.
‘Wrong. You don’t just put the soy “on” the roll. You stick the tip in and inject it,’ one follower commented below the video.
‘Otherwise you get soy run-off and when you bite into it it’s plain rice underneath.’
Another added: ‘You are supposed to stick the fish head in the sushi a couple of times to squirt the soy sauce evenly throughout.
‘Then you don’t have to keep topping it up after every bite.’
One fan also noticed a rather unsettling detail about Will’s tutorial: he placed the sushi roll on the metal food court table instead of a plate.
Noting the lack of food hygiene, they wrote, ‘I’ve been wondering.. Why’d you put your roll on the food court table?’, adding a teary-faced emoji.
Will’s sushi hack was first posted on social media almost three years ago, in February 2018, and was hailed as a ‘game-changer’.
‘Wow this is awesome, why didn’t I figure this out sooner?’ one fan responded at the time, as another added: ‘Oh my goodness that makes so much sense, life changed.’