Sushi for dummies.

So I was really hungry after some sushi some days ago, and went to Mitsu kafe at Møllergata to get some. Now, I know Mitsu kafe is alittle bit shabby, small and their service is bad, but their sushi is no deal real stuff. Because I'm a big sushi lover I ordered sushi meny large (see pictures). Now the menu is more than enough for two persons, so what I did was to eat it for both lunch and dinne ^_^ I have to explain alittle about this menu. What I got was a combination of two things, nigiri sushi and maki. Nigiri sushi are the ones with rice under it and the filling on top, while maki is the round ones with the fillings inside.

Soy sauce for sushi is called ''shoyu'' while the pickled ginger (the stuff on the left of the soy container) is called ''gari''. You're suppose to eat ''gari'' between each sushi piece to clean your palete and to fully enjoy the next piece. When going to a authentic Japanese sushi-ya (sushi restaurant) you'll also get a cup of green tea called ''agari'' and often also a warm towel to wash your hands. Do not use it extendedly to wash your face thought :) Also, the wrapping around the maki sushi is called nori (dried seaweed, also used in miso soup and gunkan maki, hand-wrapped sushi).

Oh, another thing, if you're luckily enough to go to Japan and eat sushi there, you'll never find one thing on the menu (and then you should know the restaurant is authentic) and that's the sushi type called  ''California roll''. This sushi was invented for the West, but it's never recognized as ''authentic'' sushi because it has crab stick and avocado as two of the main ingredients (ingredients which the Japanese have neved used in their sushi).

Now for the fillings.... When eating sushi and maki it's very important that you try different types of fish and seafood, both red and white fish even thought it looks weird to some of you. But you're most likely to encounter salmon, tuna, ama ebi (sweet shrimps), Unagi (Freshwater eel), Ikura (salmon roe), soft shell crab,  sardine, Aji (Japanese jack mackerel). There are also vegetarian sushi types such as tamago sushi (egg sushi).

Futhermore, beside sushi we also have sashimi which are thin slices of raw fish often presented in a very colourful and artistic way. This is also to be recommended.

I hope people found this interesting, so please any comments/questions are welcomed in the ''comment field'' below.