How to eat sushi properly:
- Pour soy sauce on the small individual plate.
- 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.
- Place the whole piece of sushi in your mouth.
- Refresh your mouth with a slice of ginger.
- 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.
About Wasabi:
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.
Above tips from Ehow
Having problems?
- Hold the sushi firmly with your chopsticks such that the filling will not fall off into the soy sauce and be too salty, you may tilt your chopsticks slightly to hold the sushi properly
- If the sushi is too big to fit in the mouth, it's a sign that the sushi is poorly made. However, living in Singapore means that small pieces of sushi will usually come from high class restuarants where people will rarely complain about cost as they understand how to eat sushi. As such, you may bite your sushi into more than one mouth, take care not to drop your sushi!
Types of sushi:
- Nigiri sushi: Sushi with the filling on top (nigiri refers to the rice being shaped by hand)
- Gunkan sushi: sushi with the filling on top, wrapped with a layer of seaweed around the rice (gunkan meaning 'steamship' that refers to the shape of the sushi)
- Temaki: Hand roll (Te literally means 'hand')
- Maki: Sushi roll (standard sushi roll that is shaped with the bamboo mat. Futo maki is --> Fat maki which is a really big maki)
- Inari sushi: Sushi that is enclosed in the sweet beancurd skin
Hope this makes your sushi-eating experience more worthwhile!
