Clean your hands by using an oshibori (hot towel). Put soy sauce for dipping in the small dish. 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.
Eating nigiri-zushi (hand-pressed sushi) with fingers
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Pick up one sushi piece
between your thumb and middle finger, putting the index finger on top. |
Dip the end of the neta
(ingredients/fish slices side) into the soy sauce (not the rice part). |
Bring the sushi to
your mouth and bite. |
With chopsticks
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Set the sushi down
and lift it up with chopsticks.
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Dip the end of the neta
(ingredients/fish slices side) into the soy sauce (not the rice part). |
Turn the sushi back and bring it to your mouth. |
Before your next bite, again dip the neta side in the soy sauce. 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:
- Don’t put too much soy sauce in the small dish. It’s better to add as you need it.
- Don’t dip a whole sushi piece into the soy sauce. The rice part tends to fall apart.
- Try to eat pieces of pickled ginger between different kinds of sushi. It helps to clean your mouth and enhance the flavours.
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