THE STYLE OF SUSHI
"What is the difference of sushi between the U.S and Japan?"
Nowadays, Japanese food is spreading out across every country and region in the world. We can see Japanese restaurants when walking in any city. Japanese foods are introduced as healthy foods in TV shows and on the internet. I came to the US (Boston) and when I ate sushi in Japanese restaurants I felt the sushi is very different from Japanese sushi. However, I could not describe the difference because it was very sensuous. So I chose sushi as my project theme and I will try to the difference clear through this research.
Sushi is maybe the most famous Japanese food in the world. It is basically made with…
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Seaweed (nori) |
Seafood and vegetable (neta) |
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White (japanese) rice added vinegar
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Roasted seaweed sheets used for keeping sushi's shape
(especially Makizushi)
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Seafood is sliced raw fish, fish roe and so on.
Vegetable is usally cucumber and avocado etc.
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Types of sushi
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Nigirizushi
Hand-pressed sushi
It consists of sushi rice that the chef pressed into rectangle with hands and seafood topped on it.
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Makizushi
Rolled sushi / It is a cylindrical piece, formed with a bamboo mat.
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Chirashizushi
Scattered sushi / It is a bowl of sushi rice topped with a variety of raw fish and vegetable.
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Inarizushi
It is a pouch of fried tofu typically filled sushi rice.
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Oshizushi
Pressed sushi / It is sushi rice and raw fish pressed into square or circle.
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Temakizushi
Rolled sushi made without a bamboo mat
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Narezushi
Traditional form of fermented sushi
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Popular types of sushi in the U.S
Restaurants menu
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Fugakyu
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Fish Market Sushi Bar
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Comparison of the types
Makizushi (especially Futomaki)
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THE U.S |
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Japanese people use often omelet, cucumber, imitation crab, gourd shavings, mashed and seasoned fish etc as contents of makizushi.
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Yum Yum crunchy roll of star market
Chicken crunchy roll of Shaw's Market
Boston roll and alaska roll (fish market sushi bar)
At Umai
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Unique point of makizushi in the U.S
Reversing seaweed sheets and sushi rice
Using usually avocado, sometimes meat (chicken) and cream cheese
Covering sushi with sesame, several spicy sauce, raw fish and so on
Nigirizushi
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The U.S |
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Shaw's market
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Unique points of Nigirisushi in the U.S
Not putting wasabi between sushi rice and fish
How to make makizushi
Conclusion
There are many types of sushi originally, but in the US we can see almost 2 style of sushi, Nigiri and Maki. Especially makizushi changed greatly the looking. The big difference of sushi between 2 countries is the style of makuzushi. American people enjoy the unique sushi that was changed by themselves.
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Links
10 Best Boston Japanese Restaurants (10best)
Sushi in Wikipedia
Fugakyu (Japanese restaurant)
Fish Market Sushi Bar(Sushi Restaurant)
Umai(Sushi Restaurant)
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