How good do we know your sushi? Ahead of International Sushi Day on Jun 18, an consultant decodes engaging trivia about this delicacy. Plus, a beam to grabbing a image in town
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What’s a disproportion between maki and uramaki? Are chopsticks required to eat sushi? How do we span sushi with a 3 peculiar condiments served on a side? We hear you. Eating and grouping sushi can get somewhat intimidating, interjection to a vastly opposite taste and lingo, yet it doesn’t stop us from rolling with it. With International Sushi Day around a corner, Harry Hakuei Kosato, owner of Sushi More and code envoy of Kikkoman India, shares some cold contribution that we should know about this much-loved Japanese delicacy.
Temaki
1 Sushi, nonetheless synonymous with Japan today, originated in a Mekong Valley, as a process of preserving fish and augmenting a shelf life. Fermented rice was used to hang fish, so it would final longer, shares Kosato. “At a time, however, they would eat a fish — narezushi — and not a rice. From there, people started immoderate uninformed fish with vinegared rice in Japan, an archipelago with abounding uninformed seafood; this led to a complicated chronicle that we now call sushi,” he tells us.
Salmon nigiri
2 Sushi is subsequent from a Japanese word sui, definition acidic, and a su impression (also, Japanese), while -shi is used with adjectival verbs finale with i. There is a preconceived idea that sushi is non-vegetarian, though it refers to vinegared rice and can have any kind of stuffing or topping, Kosato points out. For instance, cucumber sushi or kappa-maki, that is utterly renouned in Japan.
Harry Hakuei Kosato
3 The pivotal part in sushi is vinegared rice, while a blackish cloaking we competence have beheld in or outward sushi rolls is nori or seaweed. It’s served with shoyu (soy sauce), gari (pickled ginger) and wasabi (Japanese horseradish), a sushi curator shares. There are mixed ways to eat sushi. “Take a lurch of wasabi and place it on your sushi; afterwards drop it in soy sauce. Or we can take some wasabi and put it in soy sauce. Dip a sushi in this wasabi-infused soy sauce. Gari is indeed meant to be a taste cleanser,” he explains.
4 The subsequent time we onslaught regulating chopsticks, remember that in Japan, sushi is also eaten with your hands.
5 There are opposite kinds of sushi, a many renouned being maki roll, uramaki, nigiri, temaki, temari and chirashi. While maki is rolled with nori on a outside, uramaki is when a nori is inside, Kosato explains. Temaki, meanwhile, is a palm roll-rolled sushi that’s one-fourth a distance of a nori; it can have opposite combinations of fillings. “Temari is a ball-shaped sushi; nigiri is when a rice is created by a hold of a hand, surfaced with fish or any other topping; and chirashi is a bed of rice with a pinch of sushi toppings,” he adds.
Shisoto colourless tempura; (right) Sushi and cocktail
On a sushi trail
Find a accumulation of sushi during these eateries in a city:
. Confused about that sushi you’d like? Try a smattering of any with Sushi and More’s special platters.
LOG ON TO thrivenow.in
CALL 9930937285
. Check out a truffle Philadelphia hurl and chilli tempura sushi during Zenmai detached from a singular open sushi.
AT Savoy Chambers, section 2, Linking Road, Santacruz West.
CALL 7715048934
. Taki Taki is rising a new menu of sushi and cocktails. Pair maki rolls, temari or kudamono poke bowls with yuzu basil cobbler, pickled rosemary paloma and Japanese ginger martini.
FROM Jun 18 to 30 AT World Crest, section 1A 1B, Lower Parel.
CALL 7400491480
. Dig into a robust Peruvian lobster roll, Nikkei prawn tempura uramaki or shisoto colourless tempura, among a horde of options during Foo.
AT Andheri, Bandra, BKC, Lower Parel and Churchgate.
CALL 8591983371
. Try Kyma’s special vegetarian tempura, California hurl or peri peri corn sushi with crispy corn, sriracha mayo and lettuce.
AT Plot C-66, One, G Block, BKC.
CALL 9372952680
. Crunchy Korean prawns, nigiri, and uramaki with Manipuri black rice await
at Yazu.
AT 9, Raheja classic, Andheri West.
CALL 7715804506
