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Like you always surely do as;
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Food |
Sauce |
Main |
Base (seasoning) |
|
Hot dog |
put mustard / ketchup |
on the sausage / hamburger beef |
not to the bun (well-buttered) |
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Sushi |
soy sauce |
fish |
rice (well-vinegared) |
(Chopsticks)
You must first turn the sushi (nigiri) sideways by 90 degrees, then make it inverted by twisting your wrist and dip it from the fish-side. Preferably, only the fish's surface must be soaked - but it depends on your likeness to allow to the rice a little.
- Testimonials from several sushi shops and connoisseurs on this matter.
(Don't be afraid or shocked to hearing that even a half of Japanese, regardless of their ages, do wrong eventually. There is a reason that many sushi chefs are complaining about this matter over and over again. It might be your turn to teach them the right way.)
(Fingers)
When you eat by your fingers, pick up a piece of nigiri at the both side with your two fingers, thumb and middle, and simultaneously lift up the far side top to this side by the index finger, and turn it upside down. Then dip the fish side to soy sauce, and next, twist your wrist to turn the fish side up and face to you. Alternatively do as the same way as by chopsticks. To eat, bring the nigiri to your mouth, throw it into your mouth in a way that the fish side touches on your tongue, and this is a recommendable direction in nigiri-eating.
| Reason: | Fish fillet must be flavoured with soy sauce to give a relish. Especially for fresh, raw and unseasoned ones, they are less tasty or do not taste good without soy sauce. And primarily, sushi rice itself is not prepared to use the soy sauce. | ||
| Consideration: | A good sushi rice ball of nigiri should not be made stiff, should be loose as much as possible and include much air inside, to dissolve once it is in the mouth. This is the critical point of the taste of sushi. Skillful sushi chef well controls the stiffness of his nigiri-rice molding depending on how customer's eat. If you use chopsticks, he makes the rice ball stiffer than that for fingers, with which one can easily hold looser nigiri rice ball. Not only because sushi is eaten with fingers historically, but this is the real reason, to eat with fingers, in order to enjoy sushi at its maximum. It is well worth thinking over, with fingers or chopsticks. |
(For Ladies)
If the size of nigiri is too big to one bite and does not fit to your mouth, you can ask the sushi-chef to cut it into two pieces when it is served, or ask to make it smaller from the next. This is not an unusual situation at sushi bar counter and for sushi chefs, especially for ladies or children. Do not hesitate to do so.
(Tip: In the old times, the size of sushi was normally so bigger - and might be stiffer than today's, that was in a size of one and a half bite, and people ate it in two bites anyway, like as shown in a illustration of Hanaya Yohei's.)
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