For some reason, I had a craving for sushi the other day. When I was younger, I never liked it, but I have developed a taste for it and now I enjoy it very much. The sushi menu still confuses me as I do not know what everything is, but when I ate with Chhai, he knows the sushi. Here are the basic items and terms that are good to know about:

• Nori – seaweed
• Sake – Japanese alcoholic beverage
• Sashimi – small slices of raw seafood
• Maki – rice and other ingredients rolled together by a sheet of nori
  • Futomaki – thick rolls
  • Hosomaki – thin rolls
  • Uramaki – inside-out rolls
• Nigiri – rice topped with a slice of fish
• Temaki – hand rolls – cone-shaped nori wrapping around rice and other ingredients

Nori	Sashimi
Nigiri at the back and Maki at the front	Temaki

So for the next sushi time:

1. Start with Sashimi
2. Move onto nigiri or maki
3. Finish with temaki

I should also mention my favourite, unagi, which is freshwater eel. Mmmm!

Sources: Wikipedia – Sushi
Wikipedia – Sashimi
Wikipedia – List of types of sushi
Photos: Wikimedia Commons

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