The Right Way to Eat Sushi
published by gvgatchalian on Mar 24, 2011
Is it alright to eat sushi in one bite? What’s the correct way in dipping sushi in the sauce? It’s amusing to know that there are, indeed, a few set of rules to follow in eating sushi.
And this is quite understandable, as sushi is considered to be an artful, unique dining experience in Japanese tradition.
How to dip the sauce. Conventional etiquette advises that the sushi is turned over so that only the topping is dipped. This is done for two reasons : the soy sauce is for flavoring the topping, not the rice; and because the rice would absorb too much soy sauce and would fall apart. If it is too hard to turn the sushi upside-down, then one can baste the soy sauce using gari (sliced ginger) as a brush.
The use of wasabi. Do you know that in a traditional Japanese setting, the sushi should be eaten as is so as not to offend the chef? The sushi chef is trusted to add an appropriate amount of wasabi to the sushi while preparing it, that’s why customary Japanese restaurants do not offer wasabi right away to their diners. If wasabi is added by the diner, it should be applied to the topping using chopsticks, and then the sushi picked up and dipped in soy sauce. The wasabi should not be mixed with the soy sauce, as this dulls the flavor of the said condiment. (Today, of course, wasabi is a matter of personal taste, and is mixed to the soy sauce.)
Eating sushi in one bite. The traditional sushi is made so that the entire piece can be consumed in one bite, and etiquette does consider this the correct way to eat it. However, sizes these days have become discretions of the cook, and may include too much rice or topping, making it difficult for some people to fit an entire piece in their mouth, so that two bites or more must be taken. And that, I guess, is still acceptable.
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# 1 by voodoobrb
March 24th, 2011 at 1:14 pm #
Great share. Good writing
# 2 by hammadkhan
March 24th, 2011 at 1:18 pm #
nice one
# 3 by elnavann
March 24th, 2011 at 1:19 pm #
Hey – this is a wonderful post. I love sushi but sometimes rather choose something else exactly because I dont know the right way to eat. I always feel I would like to eat some Sushi completely on my own, just to get a real spontaneous feel of what it is about
# 4 by real lady
March 24th, 2011 at 1:56 pm #
Good share.
# 5 by Absinthe
March 24th, 2011 at 5:56 pm #
This is very comprehensive. Sushi lovers will surely savour every word of this. I just did.
# 6 by jedpogi
March 24th, 2011 at 11:31 pm #
if you ate too much wasabi you’ll be high… because its a drugs hehehe….
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# 7 by aimranjohn
March 25th, 2011 at 11:20 am #
Yum yum LOL
# 8 by anndavey650
March 25th, 2011 at 3:59 pm #
I love sushi and you’ve got it exactly right lol!
# 9 by Erin Miller
March 27th, 2011 at 11:48 am #
I didn’t know there were proper ways to eat sushi. This is very interesting. I will have to show this to one of my other friends who is a sushi fanatic.
# 10 by J M Lennox
March 27th, 2011 at 7:04 pm #
I don’t eat shushi but it was very interesting to learn about. A very well presented article.
# 11 by yes me
April 3rd, 2011 at 12:36 pm #
Don’t do sushi cheers
# 12 by Dee Gold
April 6th, 2011 at 12:37 am #
thanks for the info
# 13 by Brewed Coffee
April 6th, 2011 at 11:53 pm #
Oh so I’ve been doing the wasabi thing wrong. I’ll keep this in mind. But the part about eating it in one bite is one I have mastered
You can’t possible have a teeny bite and expect the sushi to still be in one piece. Hahahaha!
# 14 by Rhodora Bande
April 9th, 2011 at 2:32 am #
Eating sushi in one bite – thanks for this info. Hehe. I still remember the first time I ate sushi.
# 15 by mtrguanlao
April 10th, 2011 at 8:23 am #
Oh,now I know how to eat one,thanks for this friend!
# 16 by Meg Smith
May 17th, 2011 at 5:09 am #
Glad to know that it is okay to take more than one bite for sushi. Also, I was not aware of the etiquette issue regarding wasabi.