Sushi Famous Japanese Food

Sushi

• Chirashi-zushi (ちらし寿司, scattered sushi) is a bowl of sushi rice topped with a variety of raw fish and vegetables/garnishes (also refers to barazushi).
• Inari-zushi (稲荷寿司, fried tofu pouch) is a type of sushi served in a seasoned and fried pouch made of tofu and filled with sushi rice.
• Maki-zushi (巻き寿司, rolled sushi) consists of rice and other ingredients rolled together with a sheet of nori.
  • Chu maki (中巻き, medium roll) is a medium-sized rolled maki sushi usually containing several ingredients.
  • Futo maki (太巻き, large or fat roll) is a thick rolled maki sushi containing multiple ingredients.
  • Gunkan maki (軍艦巻, battleship roll) is a type of sushi consisting of a rice ball wrapped in a sheet of nori which extends in a cylinder upward to hold a loose topping such as fish eggs.
  • Hoso maki (細巻き, thin roll) is thinly rolled maki sushi with only one ingredient.
  • Kazari maki (飾り巻き寿司, flower or decorative roll) is a type of sushi designed frequently with colored rice into simple or complex shapes.
  • Temaki (手巻き, hand roll) is a cone-shaped maki sushi.
• Nigiri-zushi (握り寿司, hand-formed sushi) consists of an oval-shaped ball of rice topped with a slice of another item.

  Wrappings

  • Nori (海苔): dried seaweed (often used to wrap or belt makizushi or gunkan).
  • Rice paper.
  • Salmon skin.
  • Thinly sliced sheets of cucumber.
  • Usuyaki-tamago: thinly cooked sweet omelette or custard.
  • Yuba: "tofu skin" or "soybean skin", a thin film derived from soybeans.