Sushi Lover in ME!

Japanese food, especially sushi, has evolved here in North America and has gained its own style. New ingredients that would be unheard of in Japan 10-15 years ago are very common at our sushi bars now. With this new age of evolved foods and styles, it can be difficult to grasp the rules of sushi etiquette, however as long as you respect the people around you, you should not worry about what to do and what not to do. You should enjoy yourself at a sushi bar and NOT feel intimidated. I have found that if you respect normal western dinning etiquette there should be no problem.

List of the most important etiquette at a sushi bar:
~ Never "whittle" your chopsticks.
~ Dipping sauce mixing: Adding a touch of flavor, NOT immersing every grain of rice.
~ Only use sauce on the fish part of your sushi, not the rice
~ All you can eat: Eat all the food that is ordered, it is bad manners to waste food.
~ It is generally considered best form to eat sushi in one bite
~ Sushi is finger food
~ Learn a few Japanese phrases
~ Don’t ask for a knife: your fingers or chopsticks are all the tools you will need.

Know a little bit about the sushi you are going to be eating:
~ Nigiri sushi is fish or roe over balls of rice
~ Maki sushi are rolls of sushi
~ Temaki is a hand roll of sushi
~ Sashimi is raw fish with no rice

Just remember relax, ask questions, and enjoy the food!







Sushi is not always about FISH. Sushi has a very common design theme, and I’ve been finding quite a few treats that have been modeled after this popular dish

What about a piece of sushi candy for dessert? Swedish Fish, a type of gummi chewy candy shaped like fish, is wrapped up with a donut segment by a fruit-tape. Mmm, yum!



It may be hard to believe, but what you you see are really pieces of dark chocolate and rice cookies, which have been carefully moulded and presented by Suedy’s Koo-Ki Sushi. What really amazes me is the realism, and the amount of detail put in to each one. You can hardly tell them apart from the real thing!



Feast your eyes on this! A mouth watering, vegetarian sushi cake, that has been made to perfection. Zoë Lukas is the baker behind all this, combining her great talents for art and baking to create delightful and tasty concoctions.

This cake is made from spiced ginger and iced with cream cheese. Sugar paste was used to create the lovely details (chopsticks, soy sauce bowl, asparagus, sugar snap pea pod, flowers), as well as fondant (nori, bamboo edging, wasabi, pickled ginger). Sushi has never looked so good.