What Is Sushi?

Question

Do you know what Sushi really is? Thanx in advance for your answers. =)

Wow, I am impressed with the great answers so far. Thanx everyone. =D

Answer 1

What is sushi? - Not just raw fish -

Is sushi equal to raw fish? No. Raw fish is called sashimi in Japan and is not the same as sushi. Sushi indicates foods that use rice seasoned with sweet rice-wine vinegar. Of course, raw fish is the most popular ingredient in sushi, but the main element of sushi is Japanese sticky rice. There are many kinds of sushi, which don't include raw fish. Cooked fish, shellfish, and various other ingredients can be combined in sushi.

History of Sushi - Came from China -

The origin of sushi is not Japan. It is said that sushi was introduced into Japan in the 7th century from China. People began making sushi to preserve fish by fermentation when there were no refrigerators. Since salt and rice were needed in order to ferment fish, sushi became to be closely related to rice in Japan. Then, it developed into current sushi which combine fish and rice.

Answer 2

Sushi Is raw fish,rice,and vegetables
all wrapped in seaweed.

Answer 3

In Japanese cuisine, Sushi is a food made of vinegared rice combined with various toppings or fillings, which includes seafood and can also include vegetables, mushrooms, eggs, or meat. Sushi toppings may be raw, like most fish; cooked; blanched; or marinated.

Sushi as an English word has come to refer to the complete dish (rice together with toppings); this is the sense used in this article. The original term Japanese: sushi (-zushi in some compounds such as makizushi), written with kanji (Chinese characters) refers to the rice, not the fish or other toppings.[1]

Outside of Japan, sushi is often misunderstood to mean only clumps of rice topped with raw fish or even raw fish by itself, as well to refer to other raw-seafood dishes, such as sashimi (sushi and sashimi are considered distinct in Japan).

There are various types of sushi. Sushi served rolled in nori (dried sheets of laver, a kind of pressed and dried alga) is called maki (rolls). Sushi made with toppings laid onto hand-formed clumps of rice is called nigiri; sushi made with toppings stuffed into a small pouch of fried tofu is called inari; and sushi made with toppings served scattered over a bowl of sushi rice is called chirashi-zushi, or scattered sushi.

Answer 4

Small cakes of cold boiled rice, shaped by hand or wrapped in seaweed and topped with pieces of raw or cooked fish, vegetables, or egg.

Answer 5

I believe sushi is raw fish.

Answer 6

Sushi is a type of japanese delicacy, usually served with seaweed and sticky rice. it is wrapped up with seafood, or fish.

Answer 7

Anything that is wrapped in seaweed and rice. It can be a blade of grass, doesn't matter.

Sashimi = raw fish

Answer 8

its a japanese rice and seaweed wrap. generally made with raw fish of some sort. there are 100's of diferent kinds. california rolls are probably the most popular though.

Answer 9

It's raw fish in rice wraped in seaweed... not very good if you ask me, but you should try everything once... just make sure you trust the resturaunt/chef, raw fish carries many many pathogenic microbes

Answer 10

Raw fish >.< eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew