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This week’s Sushi Special is the Tango Roll. Made from spicy crab crunch, topped with fresh salmon and pietro dressing, its sure to delight a curious palate!
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In case you’re wondering who the Tango-ing couple is on the image above, that’s the Japanese couple, Kyoko Yamao and Hiroshi Yamao, sharing a dance after winning first place in the Tango Salon competition during the VII Tango Dance World Championship in Buenos Aires on August 29, 2009.

It is a usual topic of conversation about the global impact of tango, to talk about the popularity that the 2×4 has in Japan. The numerous Japanese presence in Tango at Buenos Aires as dancers as well as spectators, attests to it. Journalist and producer, Gabriel Soria, talked about this and much more in his research material for his book to be called, “El tango en Japón.”

The official story of this romance goes that a member of Japanese royalty, the baron Tsunayoshi “Tsunami” Megata, returned to Tokyo after a stay in Paris with the tango virus in his blood. Decades after, during the Second World War, the prohibition of the diffusion of Jazz, consolidated the popularity of tango in the Far East.

A little bit of unusually-heard-of history. Anyone up for a Tango… roll, that is.

$9.25.