Beginners Guide to Eating Sushi

Sushi is delicious, but if you don’t know what you are doing and how to eat Sushi, you will end up upsetting the staff of a restaurant. The technique of enjoying sushi platter can be a considerable challenge for the first time, and the methods of eating Sushi are quite simple if you will not let the entire thing catch you. 

Sushi is normally presented with 3 condiments on one side – soy sauce, gari, and wasabi dollop.

Interestingly, it is challenging to procure genuine wasabi, a plant in reality, outside Japan. Many restaurants substitute it with horseradish that obviously has the same pungency as the wasabi, mustard, starch, and green vegetables. Natural wasabi is much pungent than normal.

Finding the Right Restaurant 

No one wants to spoil the first experience of eating Sushi by selecting a restaurant with poor service and taste. Your first experience is directly dependent on the right restaurant. You won’t be eating Sushi again if the staff serves you a fish that is poorly prepared. The best way to select the right restaurant is by asking for suggestions from your friends who eat Sushi. You can also ask the locals to help you with finding a great restaurant.

Enjoy Sushi with Soy Sauce

Sushi is presented in restaurants with small shallow soy sauce dipping bowls, and you need to go easy on these bowls. Do not drop the sushi morsel into the bowl because the soy sauce can spoil the original taste of Sushi, and by doing so, you will not enjoy the vinegar of sushi rice.

You just need a light touch of saltiness, so enjoy the taste of raw fish by dunking one side of the fish in soy sauce. You can also add the touch of sweet by ponzu sauce. But this sauce tastes perfect with the low oil fish.

Sushi with Chopsticks 

Enjoy the best taste of Sushi by trying it with chopsticks, and if you are using the chopsticks for first time, go for the slices of sushi rolls. These slices are best to make a start with chopsticks. You are not supposed to shift the first stick in your hand. Just grip it on your forefinger and thumb, move it upward, and strap it on the ring finger. 

Now squeeze the other stick tightly in both the tips of the first two fingers and thumb, put on your full knuckle like a pencil. The best way of clamping the two sticks together is by bending your hand. Enjoy the slices of Sushi.