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Tabasco sauce is a hot tasting liquid used on food.
塔巴斯科辣酱是一种用于食物的辣味液体。
But it comes from the USA.
但它来自美国。
People would never eat it with sushi in Japan.
在日本，人们永远不会把它加到寿司里吃。
Hashimoto and other managers of Japanese restaurants are worried.
桥本和其他日式餐厅的经理对此都感到担忧。
They think that people may not understand the true nature of Japanese cooking.
他们认为，人们可能不了解日式料理烹饪的真正本质。
They believe that food experts will work hard to protect the good name of Japanese food.
他们相信，食品专家将会努力保护日本料理的良好声誉。
However, other restaurant owners feel anger about these food experts.
然而，其他餐馆老板对这些食品专家感到愤怒。
They accused the Japanese government of food nationalism - of believing that its food is the best.
他们指责日本政府的食物民族主义，即认为它的食物是最好的。
Some newspaper writers even started describing these food experts as “the sushi police”.
一些报纸撰稿人甚至开始将这些食品专家称为“寿司警察”。
Jerry Kim is one sushi chef who is angry about the situation.
杰里·金是一位对这种情况感到愤怒的寿司厨师。
He believes his sushi is fine the way it is.
他认为他的寿司本来就很好吃。
“I am not worried. I feel good about the way we make sushi here in California.
“我并不担心。我觉得我们加州做寿司的方式很好。
I make a Korean kind of sushi.
我做的是韩式寿司。
So what can the Japanese government say about that?”
那么，日本政府对此能说些什么呢？”
Some restaurant owners believe that the idea of sending food experts is just not reasonable.
一些餐馆老板认为，派遣食品专家的主意是不合理的。
These restaurants serve food that is a mix of Japanese food and other countries’ food - fusion food.
这些餐厅提供的食物是日本料理和其他国家食物的混合产物——融合菜。
They say fusion food is popular.
他们说融合菜很受欢迎。
People in each country like to have some food they are used to.
每个国家的人们都喜欢吃一些他们习惯吃的食物。
Marie-Ang Ly is from Laos.
Marie-Ang Ly来自老挝。
She owns a Japanese restaurant in Paris, France.
她在法国巴黎开了一家日式餐厅。
But she does not care about the restaurant-testing debate.
但她并不关心餐厅检测的争论。
Most visitors to her restaurant are not Japanese.
她餐厅的大多数客人都不是日本人。
The main thing they want is food that tastes good.
他们主要想吃味道好的食物。
