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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Make sure to dip it in wasabe (just a little of the green paste, very hot!) [b]and eat some shredded ginger with it[/b]. And good quality sake.[/quote]

Or don't.  This isn't the way to eat sushi.

The ginger isn't supposed to be eaten with the sushi. The ginger is supposed to be eaten between type of sushi to clear the palate. You can also dip the ginger in the soy sauce and then brush it across the sushi to give it a light ginger flavor. The ginger is not directly eaten with the sushi after you brush it.

Too much wasabi will overwhelm the flavors of the fish. Some people mix the wasabi in the soy sauce, but that's considered rude to the chef.

There are several types of sushi. Nigiri is a piece of fish or other protein, placed over a rice ball. Maki is a roll of rice and fish and/or vegetable. Temaki is a hand-roll shaped like a cone and eaten like a taco.

If I were trying this for the first time again, I would try ordering the assortment (often labeld "Sushi A" or "Sushi B", which usually comes with a California roll, plus maybe another roll. The chef usually includes yellowtail and tuna in the assortment. If you have time, pick a slow day/time at the best sushi bar you can find. Sit at the bar. Talk to the chef and ask what he recommends. He can walk you through it.

If you are ordering a la carte, try this: tuna (maguro), fatty tuna (toro),  salmon (sake), yellowtail (hamachi), octopus (tako),  tamago (sweetened egg omelet), masago (roe), and a California roll or spicy tuna roll or a specialty roll from the house.

Wash you hands before eating.

Pour a little soy sauce in the shallow dish that they give you.

When eating nigiri, you eat it in one bite. If you want to eat with soy sauce, dip it fish side first in the soy sauce and then eat it. It doesn't go in rice side first. You can just dip it in the soy sauce.

I also almost always get some miso soup or edamame as an appetizer. Edamame are soy beans boiled and salted. You have to squeeze them out of their hulls and discard the hulls. My kids love doing this! Miso soup is a tofu soup that is salty

Choose a good restaurant. Grocery store sushi is not a place to start. It is not as well done as restaurant sushi. It can sit there for some time and get stale, too.

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This is correct.  Eating ginger on the sushi would defeat the entire purpose of the ginger.  And, it is extremely rude to dip the rice side in the soy sauce, especially if you already have mixed in wasabi, as they have already - if it is a good place - seasoned the fish with some wasabi and you would just be covering up the flavors.  Then again, do as you like, lots of people do, but this would be the more proper way of doing it.[/quote]

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