All Bout Sushi

well...this afternoon i was having a lunch with my friends at Sushi King. I eat the Sakana black pepper set and some other sushi like cucumber maki (can consider as my favourite).

While eating my sushi i saw the pamphlet lie on the pan, it's talking bout the good bout the ingredient they are using to make the sushi. It include the advantage taking vinegar, miso soup, and salmon fish. Well after i reach home i feel it was like a kind of interesting topic to share it will all the blogger about the advantages bout eating sushi and the properties of those healthy ingredient.
well this is what i have found bout sushi ^^ hope u all enjoy...

Sushi

In Japanese Cuisine, sushi is Vinegared rice, usually topped with other ingredients, including fish, various meats, and vegetables. Outside of Japan, sushi is sometimes misunderstood to mean the raw fish itself, or even any fresh raw-seafood dishes.In Japan, sliced raw fish alone is called sashimi and is distinct from sushi, as sashimi is the raw fish component, not the rice component. The word sushi itself comes from an archaic grammatical form of a word that is no longer used in other contexts; literally, "sushi" means "it's sour".

There are various types of sushi: sushi served rolled inside nori (dried and pressed layer sheets of seaweed or alga) called makizushi or rolls; sushi made with toppings laid with hand-formed clumps of rice called nigirizushi ; toppings stuffed into a small pouch of fried tofu called inarizushi; and toppings served scattered over a bowl of sushi rice called chirashi-zushi .

Nutritional information bout Sushi

The main ingredients of sushi, raw fish and rice are naturally low in fat (with the exception of some rolls, especially Western style rolls), high in protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals. Specifically:

• Fats: Most seafood are naturally low in fat; and what fat is found in them is generally rich in unsaturated fat Omega-3. Since sushi is often served raw, no fat is introduced in its preparation.

• Proteins: Fish, tofu, seafood, egg, and many other sushi fillings contain high levels of protein.

• Vitamins and Minerals: These are found in many of the vegetables used for sushi. For example, the gari and nori used to make sushi are both rich in nutrients. Other vegetables wrapped within the sushi also offer various degrees of nutritional value.

• Carbohydrates: These are found in the rice and the vegetables.

History bout Sushi

Sushi originally began as the preservation of food, somewhere around inland China, in 4th century BC. Fish was salted then wrapped in fermented rice; it became a great source of protein. The original type of sushi was nare-sushi. Nare-sushi was gutted fish stored in fermented rice for preservation. Nare-sushi was stored for fermentation for a few months then removed. The fermented rice was discarded and the fish was the only part consumed.

It began to expand throughout China, and sometime around the 8th century AD it reached Japan. The Japanese preferred to eat fish with rice, this caused the creation of seisei-sushi. During the Muromachi period seisei-sushi was the most popular type of sushi. Seisei-sushi was partly raw fish wrapped in rice, before it lost its flavor. This new way of consuming sushi was no longer a form of preservation but rather a cuisine.

During the Edo era or the early modern period of Japan, a third type of sushi was introduced, haya-sushi. Haya-sushi was created so that both rice and fish could be consumed at the same time, the dish became unique to the Japanese culture. It was the first time that rice was not being used for fermentation. Rice was mixed with vinegar and fish as usual but then vegetables and dried preserved foods would be added as well. This type of sushi is still very popular today. Each region utilizes local flavors to produce many kinds of sushi that has been passed down for many generations.

When Tokyo was still being called Edo, at the beginning of the 19th century, mobile food stalls became the food services dominated industry. During this period nigiri-sushi was introduced. Nigiri-sushi is the most common type of sushi in restaurants. It is an oblong mound of rice with a slice of fish draped over it. After the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923, nigiri-sushi chefs lost their jobs and spread throughout Japan spreading it with them.

Today's dish internationally known as "sushi" (nigirizushi; Kantō variety) is a fast food invented by Hanaya Yohei(華屋与兵衛; 1799 - 1858) at the end of Edo period in today's Tokyo (Edo). People in Tokyo were living in haste even over one hundred years ago. The nigirizushi invented by Hanaya was not fermented and could be eaten by hands (or using chopstick ). It was an early form of fast food that could be eaten at a road side or in a theater.

Some picture bout sushi according to type of sushi

a)Nigiri-zushi

b) Maki-zushi (roll)

c) Oshizushi

d)Inari-zushi

e)chirashizushi

f)Western sushi (california roll)

the end ^^