First time at the sushi bar

The situation in which you were, frankly, spicy... You are invited to a sushi bar (or "sushi bar"), and you are ashamed to admit amateurishness of knowledge about the cult of this traditional Japanese dishes. Or maybe you have decided to arrange a small celebration of new gastronomic experiences, spend them the entire monthly salary, but not sure of the result, and maybe he's not worth it. In any case, sushi you will try for the first time, and some nerves there, because it first depends, will you ever for a portion of the Japanese exoticism. If this is all about you, so our advice is at.

Ideally, if you have a friend, let not sushi-zu, that is, the scholar and connoisseur, and even just a lover, who will give some guidance in the choice of good schools and the actual sushi. But if these friends you lack, remember a simple rule: only go to the best sushi restaurant in your city. Let it be the most expensive, but because you want to experience the real taste of sushi, not the cheap substitutes. So you will save yourself from disappointments and false judgments about sushi.

As a rule, beginners start their acquaintance with such a type of sushi as Maki - rolled sushi (or rolls) of rice filled with fish or vegetables, such sushi wrapped with sheets of nori - seaweed. If you do not venture at once to try sushi with raw fish (and these make sushi with the freshest raw fish), start with harmless Kappa-Maki rolls with cucumber, tune in, so to speak. And then go to Maki with tuna (Tekka-Maki) or salmon, a simple composition of rolled sushi. In General, there are many options for Macs, but among them the first time you can allocate futomaki (large rolls 2-3 cm thick and 4-5 cm wide, usually made with two or three fillings), hosomaki (small rolls size 2x2 cm, with one type of filling; Kappa-Maki, by the way, is a kind of hosomaki) and temaki (poppies look like made that turn from nori and filled with different fillings; long temaki about 10 cm, eat them only hands). Familiarity with Macs, you can continue California roll (crab meat, avocado and cucumber, and the sheets of nori at the California roll wrapped "on the contrary" is not sushi outside and inside), they taste a little more complicated, and you have something to compare. By the way, the California rolls are American styling Japanese Maki.

Once you've tasted poppies, expand the horizons of taste due nigiri - molded sushi. This is nothing more than a thin strip of damp, of course, fish, placed on an oblong lump of rice with a piece of wasabi, sometimes nigiri "bandage" strip of nori. Nigiri were created by the Japanese specifically in order to fully enjoy the taste of the fish. Start with the nigiri, the taste of fish or seafood in which you are most familiar, such as tuna, squid, prawns, mackerel. Nigiri is not necessarily made with fish, can be nigiri with egg (thin omelet). In good restaurants stucco like sushi melts in your mouth, and it shows its superior cooking.

The California rolls

Kappa-Maki

Nigiri-sushi

Temaki

Some advice about the nigiri:

Nigiri eat a whole is accepted. Besides, it's convenient - otherwise, if you try to bite off part of rice just non-fiction pieces. If nigiri still seem large, ask the waiter to bring smaller sushi.

When dipping nigiri-sushi in soy sauce, do it so that the sauce is related only to fish, but in any case not Fig. And it is better to use for these purposes a piece of pickled ginger, which is usually served with sushi: saute the ginger in the sauce and coat them how tassel fish part of nigiri. The ginger is better with nigiri not to eat.

Well, a cursory introduction to the cult of the sushi was held. Congratulations! Now, save money for a second trip in the sushi-bar-restaurant to continue the acquaintance with the basics of Swietenia.

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