OUTRAGED! "Fake" crab at Wolfgang Puck

[BriarRosie]

I agree- I'm surprised it wasn't printed on the menu. Most places I eat CA rolls at state that they are using imitation crab. Often the menus list CA rolls with real crab for a couple dollars more.

Right. I usually notice the difference in price on the real vs. imitation.
I really never order California Rolls anymore. I'm more into spicy tuna or spicy salmon.

 

[Joshua_me]

The only place I usually see imitation crab in CA rolls is the pre-made sushi at grocery stores.

There was a time when a restaurant at The Poly was using "sushi" pre-made and supplied by Publix, a local grocery store.

That has since stopped, but I wonder if now WP is doing the same thing.

I hope not.

 

[Colleen27]

They would have had a real problem if I had been there, if it was listed as real crab.

I am one of those extremely rare people who can eat shellfish, but who is extremely allergic to "fishy fish" -- fish with fins. I'm extremely careful, and it's been two decades since I had an encounter with fish. The result is anaphylaxis.

If Wolfgang Puck is listing a fish product as "crab," then somebody could die. They ought to think about that in their bottom line.

That was my first thought too. DH is the same as you - he has a severe (anaphylactic) allergy to fish but no problem with shellfish and absolutely loves crab & lobster. He usually doesn't eat sushi because of worries about cross-contamination, but will occasionally have a piece of my California roll or shrimp roll (and coincidentally enjoyed the one at WP on our last trip ). For a restaurant to sub imitation crab without noting it on the menu could be fatal for him. The places we eat at home, even the cheap take out joints, always note the difference on the menu and I would expect the same at Disney, particularly from somewhere as well-known and well-regarded as WP.

 

[vacation4me]

I think restaurants need to put it on the menu if they're using imitation crab meat. I'm glad you complained, and got a replacement.

They should because I am alergic to some seafood, scallops is a big one, Calimari is another and I do not do well with certain types of oysters either. Lets just say my reaction scares the crap out of my wife and once at a very fine restaurant the parametics were called.

Crab is something I am not alergic too, but whatever they put in imitation crab triggers a reaction.

 

[TinkerBelle_325]

There was a time when a restaurant at The Poly was using "sushi" pre-made and supplied by Publix, a local grocery store.

That has since stopped, but I wonder if now WP is doing the same thing.

I hope not.

When was this and which restaurant? The only sushi I've seen at the Polynesian in the last few years is that at the Kona Island Sushi bar where it is made fresh right in front of you.

 

[Colleen27]

When was this and which restaurant? The only sushi I've seen at the Polynesian in the last few years is that at the Kona Island Sushi bar where it is made fresh right in front of you.

Capt Cooks sells prepackaged grocery store style rolls, so I assume that's what the PP was talking about. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Disney had contracted with the same company that supplies Publix for those limited grab-and-go sushi choices. Those, however, are CLEARLY labeled on the ingredients list as imitation crab and served in the package, not transferred to a plate, so they don't present the allergy risk that imitation crab in a TS California roll does.