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You probably wouldn’t go to a foreign country without speaking the language or taking a guide…right?? So, why EAT SUSHI when you don’t know how to order it?

The following is a simple quick-list of some of the most popular sushi terms you should definately know:

• Futo Maki -  “Large Fat Roll”

•Bara Sushi – “Rice and Ingredients Mixed Together like a Rice salad”

•Chirashi Sushi – “Bed of Rice topped with Sushimi and other ingredients”

•Fukusa Sushi – “sushi where rice is wrapped in paper thin omelette”

•Funamori – “Nigiri Sushi wrapped to hold less solid ingredients”

•Maki Sushi – “Sushi rice wrapped into a sheet of Nori, rolled with a center of fillings”

•Nigiri Sushi – “A molded ball of rice typically topped with raw fish or sweet dill”

•Okonomi Zushi – “Homesytle Nigiri sushi”

•Tazuna Sushi – “Maki roll with diagonal strips or fish across the top also called rainbow roll”

•Sashimi – “Sliced or prepared raw fish”

•Temaki - “Hand rolls often cone shaped and typically have sake, sukimi, maguro, ume-shiso, negi-toro, natto..”

•Tekka Maki – “Sushi Roll filled with tuna”

•Unagi Maki – “Eel Roll”