"Travis McGee" > wrote in message
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> http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydis...828-story.html
>
> You're eating sushi all wrong! Tokyo sushi chef teaches proper way to eat
> sushi
> The right way to eat sushi
>
> By Jenn Harris contact the reporter
>
> Apparently eating sushi three times a week doesn't make you an expert.
> According to Tokyo sushi chef Naomichi Yasuda, we've been doing it all
> horribly wrong.
>
> In a new video by Vice's Munchies, seen above, the chef explains the right
> and wrong way to eat sushi. Rule one, eat cut rolls with your hands. We
> know, we were shocked too when we learned that using chopsticks to shove
> pieces of blue crab roll into your mouth was not proper sushi etiquette.
>
> And when you dunk your piece of sushi roll into soy sauce, well, don't
> dunk it. Just dip what Yasuda says is "enough" to taste the soy sauce,
> then eat it. And don't ever, ever eat the pickled ginger with your sushi.
> It's meant to be eaten by itself, after you've eaten a piece of sushi.
>
> Everyone who shoves the unlimited supply of ginger on the table at Sushi
> Stop onto every single bite of sushi is silently crying. You know who you
> are.
>
> And one of the biggest no-no's was how people normally dip nigiri into soy
> sauce. Yasuda explains how to properly dip sushi so that the fish, and not
> the rice, makes contact with the soy sauce. This makes sense when you
> think of all the times you've asked for a new soy sauce dish because yours
> is full of runaway pieces of rice.
>
> And just when you thought he couldn't say anything more to shock you, he
> drops this bit of wisdom like a sake bomb:
>
> "What's important about sushi is the rice. The rice is the main
> ingredient. So people talk about the fish. But the fish, this is the
> second ingredient."

people don't know all this?

dip your chopstick in the soy sauce and put a few drops on the sushi.
doesn't this sushi expert know that?