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Sushi for Beginners

1. When eating sushi 12 pieces per person is more than enough.

2. If you are eating sushi as part of a Japanese meal , then four pieces per person is fine

3. Sushi is the ultimate finger food , made by hand and traditionally eaten with hands, not chopsticks.

4. If you are in a sushi bar order sushi by the piece, if you are seated at a table order a main meal and sushi

5. Take a piece of sushi and dip just the fish side into the soy sauce - the rice will break up if you try dipping it

6. The most common mistake when eating sushi is to drown it in soy sauce, this will make you look like an amateur

7. If sushi is eaten as part of a main meal it should be served last, you dont want to fill yourself with sushi before the main meal arrives.

8. When ordering sushi dont forget the pickles and seaweed, a plate of tempura also goes well.

9. Miso is a soup, so dont go dunkin' the pieces of tempura that accompany it.

10. Never stand chopsticks in your food or play with them, its very disrespectful

11. Sake should be drunk cold, unless it is of inferior quality. If it is drink it hot.

12. When eating edamame (soya bean), always remove the shells and eat only the bean inside.

 

 

 

Fact Of The Day

Throughout history, pepper has frequently been valued equal to or more than gold! In 408 A.D. the Visigoths attacked Rome and demanded 3,000 pounds of pepper as part of the city's ransom. In Elizabethan times, pepper was sold by the individual grain, and guards on the London docks had their pockets sewn up so they couldn’t steal any spices.

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