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Little Japan in Tijuana
I've lived in Japan twenty-five years. I've never encountered a "portobello walnut miso sando (Japanese-style sandwich)." Japanese put many different things in bread but miso is not one of them. "The spicy tuna did not have any avocado or cream cheese, just tuna, rice, and seaweed." I've never encountered "spicy tuna" in Japan and any kind of tuna in "maki sushi" (should be makizushi) is unusual although not absolutely unknown. If tuna is used in makizushi, it is raw, not what is apparently canned tuna in the photograph. I have never encountered cream cheese in makizushi in Japan. Makizushi with avocado is called "California maki" to indicate that it is an import.— April 4, 2016 2:05 p.m.