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How to eat sushi or eating sushi ritual

Sushi is served with soy sauce, wasabi and ginger. Wasabi is the green paste, which is usually found in your plate. It has a very sharp taste and do not need it much. Ginger eat mostly between każym piece of sushi, this is done to clean the palate.

Japanese eat sushi from the age of and by this time formed a kind of ritual of eating. None of us will not require detailed knowledge of the Japanese tradition of eating, but eating sushi we have to follow a few rules.

Upon entering the bar, greeted by a waiter. If you prefer to sit at the bar and look at how food is prepared must indicate this at the entrance, otherwise the waiter will take us to the table.

" Itamae" and "Shokunin " means a cook. Difference between them is that " Itamae " is a chef, and " Shokunin " qualified chef.

If we sit at the bar, a sushi Itamae only please. drinks, soups and other accessories brings us a waiter.

At the beginning of the meal the waiter offered us a hot, damp towel (oshibori), you can wipe his hands before eating.

On the table we find already prepared chopsticks (Hashi), and soy sauce (shōyu).

Sushi can eat with chopsticks or hands. Only sashimi with chopsticks.

dipped in soy sauce and fish, not rice. Rice is like a sponge, soak up too much sauce and the balance of flavors will be upended.

When we want to try a piece of someone else's plate, use the tips of sticks, which hold in my hand, and not those who put in the mouth.

Nigiri sushi

eat at once. Experienced Itamae certainly do nigiri appropriate size.

Ginger (gari) is eaten separately between successive pieces of sushi. It removes the taste of the previous piece.

In traditional Japanese restaurant, the soup will get the baton, not a spoon. Permanent cuts in the soup we eat with chopsticks, and fluid to drink a bowl of grabbing hands.

Sake drink only with sashimi. Because the sushi and sake are rice, it is considered that do not go hand in hand.

Sake is served warm or chilled, depending on the type and quality. Higher quality sake is served chilled.

After finishing a meal, leave a tip for Itamae is welcome and thanks. "Domo Arigato" in Japanese: Thank you.

What we do:

never order the sushi at Itamae asking "what's fresh." It is very rude.

How are we to doubt what to order, please recommendation.

not ocierami sticks to itself and does not pretend to play the drums. Not used sticks should be parallel to the himself on the stand or in soy sauce.

not mix wasabi with soy sauce. We do not want to offend Itamae who, as a sushi chef created a dish with a perfect balance of flavors.

Never leave chopsticks stuck in the rice. In Japanese culture it is associated with symbols of death and burial.

If we want to treat someone with your sushi, do not use this pałeczkech own, but we give her a plate.