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Nigiri Sushi

March 8, 2010 by drewloupsen  
Filed under Food And Drink

If a sushi is complemented with the slice of raw fish or prawns, it is called Nigiri sushi. This square looking sushi meal is most famous among all the sushi food because it gives a unique taste to fish. There are plenty of diverse methods to prepare a Nigire sushi, so if you buy a same fish lots of time, every time it would taste unlike than before.

Few sushi makers use Nori as a device to set the fish over the rice. While other like wasabi for this purpose. Sushi rice can enhance the taste of the fish and different methods have been used to do this.

There is variety of dissimilar techniques to eat Nigiri sushi and every technique can give you a unlike taste. Before having Nigire sushi make it sure that you are eating Nigiri first so that your tongue enjoy all the flavors of fish.

If you eat your nigiri sushi rice down, you will lose the hard flavor of the fish. As a sushi chef prides themselves on the selection of fish for nigiri, making certain you eat it correctly is rigid.

Many people like the flavor of soy sauce with their nigiri sushi. However, there is a very specific way that nigiri sushi should be dipped into soy sauce and wasabi. Unlike maki or other forms of sushi, nigiri sushi can become extremely tricky to eat if the rice becomes wet from soy sauce. Because of this, nigiri sushi should be dipped in soy sauce with the fish portion. This will ensure that the rice bed does not break apart when you are attempting to eat it.

Not only making sushi involves lots of creativity but eating it is also an art. And that art can be performed by using two tools; chopsticks and your fingers. Make it sure that when you eat a sushi food you should not leave anything uneaten

Sushi is meant to be completely eaten, and it is considered an insult to the sushi chef if you leave sushi you have put on your plate uneaten. However, it is not taboo if you never select the sushi to eat from the primary serving dish. As sushi on the major serving dish is unclaimed, it is not considered to be insult to not eat it.

If your Nigiri sushi is of normal size you should eat it in one bite but if it is big then you might cut it into two pieces. Except Temaki sushi, all the sushi food must be taken within two bites.

Ingrid A. Preube
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