Handy Facts for Eating in Restaurants

Japanese Sushi Words

Types of Sushi

Chirashi sushi (Iso-don, gomoku sushi)
Sushi rice in a bowl with the raw fish and other ingredients on top
Futomaki
Large roll
Norimake
A roll with nori seaweed on the outside
California roll
Cooked crab meat (usually not real crab), smelt or flying fish roe, and avocado
Nigiri sushi
A slice of fish or other topping atop vinegared rice
Onigiri
Balls made with plain steamed rice with various stuffings
Oshizushi
Sushi rice and other ingredients pressed into a box or mold
Sashimi
Sliced or prepared raw fish
Sushi
Anything made with vinegared rice
Temaki
Hand rolls, usually cone-shaped

Fish

hamachi
yellow-tail, a kind of tuna
uni
sea-urchin roe (the eggs of the sea urchin)
maguro
regular tuna
toro
fatty tuna, a lighter color pink than maguro and more of a delicacy
ikura
salmon row - the large transparent orange eggs of the salmon
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