You’ve been greeted at the door. You’ve sidled up to the bar and cleaned your hands. Perhaps you’ve prepared your shoyu with wasabi, or maybe you’re going to free-(rice)ball it. Either way, you’ve gingerly dipped your nigiri sushi, fish side down in the shoyu and now, little grasshoppa, you are ready. The time has come. You are ready to eat your sushi.
You must eat the whole thing in one bite.
That’s right, turn that sucker over so your tongue can taste the fish first, and eat the entire thing all at once. Shoving a whole piece in your mouth just too much? It’s okay to bite the sushi in half, but hold onto that second half while you finish your first bite. It’s considered rude to put a half-eaten piece back on your plate.
Garsh, and to think Mama always told me to take small bites like a lady.

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10-07-2005 @11:28AM matt said... Hi Sarah! I love <3 LOVE your little sushi tips! Is there a way I can see them all together on this site? Is there a tag you can add to the posts so they appear togehter? You are so creative and such a great writer! Keep up the good work.
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10-07-2005 @12:07PM sarah said... hey matt...thanks for the <3!! :)
as far as an index of all the sushi tid-bits, for now, you can just look here:
http://www.slashfood.com/bloggers/sarah-j-gim/
which has them all, though mixed in with a few other posts, but much less to sift through than the entire site.
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10-07-2005 @12:55PM matt said... Yay! There they are! I'm showing all my sushi noob friends this info. Of course, I've known most of the proper sushi eating techniques for years, but your little illustrations/commentary make them great teaching tools.
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10-07-2005 @2:06PM r said... The food and wine magazine from last month or maybe two months ago had all the tips.
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10-07-2005 @1:26PM sarah said... glad that they are useful...the illustrations are actually from last month's issue of food and wine (the focus on asian food) - they did a whole story on sushi!
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