Sushi King

How to eat sushi

1. Clean your hands by using an oshibori (hot towel).
2. Put soy sauce for dipping in the small dish.
3. Mix a bit of wasabi (Japanese horse radish) with the soy sauce if you want. Since wasabi is already placed in each sushi piece, you don’t need to do this.
4. When you eat nigiri-zushi (hand-pressed sushi), pick up one sushi piece between your thumb and middle finger, putting the index finger on top.
5. Dip the end of the neta (ingredients/fish slices side) into the soy sauce.(not the rice part)
6. Bring the sushi to your mouth and bite in half.
7. Before your next bite, again dip the neta side in the soy sauce.
8. When you eat maki-zushi(rolled sushi), place the whole piece in your mouth if you can. Maki-zushi falls apart easily when you bite.

Tips:
1. Don’t put too much soy sauce in the small dish. It’s better to add as you need it.
2. Don’t dip a whole sushi piece into the soy sauce. The rice part tends to fall apart.
3. Try to eat pieces of pickled ginger between different kinds of sushi. It helps to clean your mouth and enhance the flavors.

Once you arrive at the sushi restaurant, the host or hostess will seat you. Once seated, you will notice several items in front of you. The most recognizable of these items are the hashi, or chopsticks. Unlike those in Chinese restaurants, most hashi are made from unpolished wood, so they can be a little rough if they are not of a good quality. Some very expensive sushi restaurants will have lacquered hashi, but they are very unusual. Your wooden hashi should be in one piece, and they will need to be split in two. Once the hashi have been broken, they should sit with their rounded ends in the hashi oki, a small ceramic block which usually has an indentation to hold the chopsticks. At the right of your setting will be a small oblong ceramic saucer that is for the shoyu, or soy sauce. The soy itself will be in a lidded jug, rather like a miniature teapot.

Some rules :
• Never pass food to someone using chopsticks. If you must share food, pass them the plate so that they can pick from it instead.
• If you take food from a shared plate (such as in the above situation), use the reverse ends of your chopsticks rather than the ends which go in your mouth.
• Never bite into a piece of food and then replace the other half on your plate. Once you have picked something up you should eat all of it.
• When not using your chopsticks, you should place them in front of you, parallel to the edge of the sushi bar, with the narrow ends in the provided hashi oki; never place them directly on the bar.
• Never leave rice after a meal. Leaving any kind of food is considered rude, but leaving rice is especially so.
• Never smoke in a sushi bar, it obscures the delicate flavors of the fish for everyone else. Ashtrays will likely be provided in many sushi bars (especially in Europe and America) but to use them is dismissive of the efforts of the chef.
• Never expect the chef to handle money; another employee will settle the bill for you. People who handle the food never touch the money.

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