Learn about Sushi and many surprising facts about Sushi.

Japan offers a wide variety of cuisine. But the most well known is the sushi. A combination of rice with either fish, meat, seafood or vegetables. Sushi is actually the rice and not the fish as many westerners believe. It appeared in South East Asia, some time in the fourth century, but it is thought to been introduced to Japan almost four hundred years ago.

So, here I am at a sushi bar. Our guide for today is preparing us some tuna. So he first forms the rice bowl. The rice is usually white and short grained and mixed with vinegar, sugar, salt, kombu and sake. Stickiness is the most important factor but the vinegar dressing varies regionally. He is trained for thirteen years. It is very fresh. Scallop, for the dip. He is cutting into smaller bits. Put some wasabi onto the rice. Usually soy sauce is not put dirrectly on the sushi. I guess it is the style here. So now he is making us some hosomaki, which only has one filling. It is in a roll, like that. He is putting some tuna. And that is technique.

"Roll it loose and place the fillings with the fish. That is the secret." The sushi is usually served with kisho. That is the gatti, the horseradish. And that is the wasabi. This is the Tamaki. It is quite big. It has alot of volume. These are the different kind of seafood used in sushi. Here is the sea urchin, sardine, the arch shell, the scallop, which I just had. The octopus, the hadami, blood scallop. This is yuko, showing you Tokyo.