iwen t to a sushi place wer i liv and it was good but i dont know if it was othentic
how do you tell? i plan on becoming a japanese citizen, so i think i should know what sushi taste like
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wait, i presume u nvr touch one aren't u =_________=
What are you talking about? Sushi is sushi. Nevertheless, I shall try to help you.
Be on the lookout for vinegared rice with fish or some other ingredient on top. That's a variety called nigiri. Also, vinegar rice in a roll is another type of sushi called maki. An example of maki is tekkamaki or, to use a more common example (at least, where I live), California rolls. Keep in mind that most maki do not resemble California rolls...rather, they have the seaweed on the outside. Inari-zushi is another kind of sushi, but there's usually no fish. It's just a pouch of fried tofu with vinegar rice on the inside. The last type of sushi is called temaki. It's a large piece of seaweed rolled up into a cone shape, with the ingredients spilling out of the wide side. Chirashi is also arguably sushi, since it has sushi rice mixed with raw fish.
Hope that helps.
I wanna add something here
U will most likely found out that sushi is served with wasabi which is actually being used erroneously as a type of dip sauce.Wasabi is actually used as a bacteria killer, to kill the germs of the raw meat on sushi.
Also, some who don't like the taste of wasabi most likely used soy sauce and wasabi mix dip to lower the wasabi "hotness"
Ironically, the Japanese who some of them is a purist most likely used NO wasabi or any dipping sauce at all (for the freshness).
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In Shinto allowing your rice to come in contact with soy sauce is a mortal insult to the rice god and will cause you to go to hell.