When you're served a plate of nigiri sushi or sashimi, your dish will usually include wasabi (the green ball of paste), ginger (thin, pink slices placed right next to the wasabi) and a small plate set off to the side.
Hold one piece of sushi (including the ball of rice on the bottom) and dip the fish side into the sauce. Avoid dipping the rice into the sauce.
Step3
Place the whole piece of sushi in your mouth.
Step4
Refresh your mouth with a slice of ginger.
Step5
Eat sashimi sushi (individual slices of raw fish) by dipping the fish slices into soy sauce. If desired, order a side dish of rice and take a few bites after each slice of fish.
Tips & Warnings
Wasabi (the green paste) tastes somewhat like horseradish. Some people mix a little wasabi into the soy sauce; however, even though the wasabi is there on your plate, it's really considered bad manners to do this, because the sushi chef has already placed some wasabi on the rice roll. If you add more wasabi, you are essentially telling the chef that he or she did not do a good job.
Another way to eat nigiri sushi is to lift the slice of fish from the rice ball, dip the fish into the sauce, replace it back on top of the rice ball and pop the whole thing into your mouth.
on 3/3/2008
Eat yuor sushi however you enjoy it! If you like to mix the wasabui, go for it! If you like to put the ginger on top, do it! I think the sushi chef would MUCH rather you enjoy your sushi then eat it the 'proper' way and not like it as much.
on 3/18/2007
I live in Japan and I can tell you that all kinds of people here mix the wasabi and soy sauce together. (If wasabi isn't already on the sushi!) It is true, wasabi is there to kill any bacteria on the fish, so you should order your sushi with wasabi. Try the octopus, it is the best!!!
on 8/8/2006
Fingers are OK, since sushi was invented as a finger food. Also, when ordering sushi, you usually should start with the leaner, whiter cuts of fish, moving to darker more fatty cuts.
on 3/30/2006
My personal favorite is something called Ikura(e core uh) which is a bed of rice topped with salmon eggs and then wrapped in seaweed. It is high in sodium, so if you are one to use soy sauce but don't like salt, you might want the low sodium soy sauce (usually green topped bottle). In my honest opinion it does not need soy sauce, but to each their own. Enjoy!
Comments
celticjames said
on 6/11/2008 same in Korea too. Koreans are known to dip kimbap into soups and soy sauce. They dont tend to go much for wasabi tho !
moongdss said
on 3/3/2008 Eat yuor sushi however you enjoy it! If you like to mix the wasabui, go for it! If you like to put the ginger on top, do it! I think the sushi chef would MUCH rather you enjoy your sushi then eat it the 'proper' way and not like it as much.
Shelly78 said
on 3/18/2007 I live in Japan and I can tell you that all kinds of people here mix the wasabi and soy sauce together. (If wasabi isn't already on the sushi!) It is true, wasabi is there to kill any bacteria on the fish, so you should order your sushi with wasabi. Try the octopus, it is the best!!!
Anonymous said
on 8/8/2006 Fingers are OK, since sushi was invented as a finger food. Also, when ordering sushi, you usually should start with the leaner, whiter cuts of fish, moving to darker more fatty cuts.
Anonymous said
on 3/30/2006 My personal favorite is something called Ikura(e core uh) which is a bed of rice topped with salmon eggs and then wrapped in seaweed. It is high in sodium, so if you are one to use soy sauce but don't like salt, you might want the low sodium soy sauce (usually green topped bottle). In my honest opinion it does not need soy sauce, but to each their own. Enjoy!