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Is the food served at a non-kosher, non-Jewish run sushi restaurant considered non-kosher because of the non-kosher-ness of the knives, the bishul akum of the rice, or both?

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    Related: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/14686/…
    – HodofHod
    Aug 6, 2012 at 16:07
  • Lots of fish (and seafood) used in sushi are straight-up not kosher.
    – WhyEnBe
    Feb 2, 2016 at 16:09
  • @WhyEnBe, I was asking about foodstuffs with the primary component being fish that is inherently kosher. Feb 9, 2016 at 16:36
  • Primary component, does not mean all ingredients. Also the cooking utensils would be used for both konsher and non-kosher. Jun 1, 2016 at 0:13

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Both of these problems that you mentioned, as well as others, are issues. Bishul akum would probably be more of an issue than the knives (although it may or may not apply to rice) since the knives would always be used on cold things and are probably washed; however, the knives may have been used on foods with a sharp taste (such as an onion), which renders temperature irrelevant, although you could get around this problem by ordering something that does not have any of these sharp-tasting foods in it. Food items subsequently cut with that knife are not rendered unkosher. Also, you can't really know that they're always washed between treyf and kosher fish.

That is the more general problem anyway with non-kosher restaurants. You just don't really know what's going on the kitchen, so it's hard to justify eating there even if all of the ingredients used in the restaurant are kosher.

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  • The cooking utensils are probably used for all of the fish (kosher and non-kosher) Jun 1, 2016 at 0:12
  • @sabbahillel Yes... That's what I said in the answer.
    – Daniel
    Jun 1, 2016 at 1:21

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