doraemonfans: Sushi

English: Typical Japanese sushi set, as sold in department stores. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: This is Famous Japanese food called Sushi. This is actually raw sea food including Fish, Shrimps with rice and other sea food. I took this picture when i was in Japan on my official KOMATSU company tour in May-Jun 2008. This was my farewell dinner party at Japan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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English: Nigiri sushi (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Sushi chef working in a restaurant in Kyoto Station, Kyoto, Japan. Taken by DinkY2K (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sushi has become a commonplace term today.

Do you know the origins of sushi?

Sushi is a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegar rice combined with other ingredients, usually raw fish or other seafood.

All sushi has a base of specially prepared rice, complemented with other ingredients.

The original type of sushi, known today was first developed in South-east Asia, and spread to south China before introduction to Japan .The term sushi comes from an old grammatical form no longer used in other contexts; literally, sushi means "sour-tasting". The oldest form of sushi in Japan, narezushi, still very closely resembles this process, wherein fish is fermented by being wrapped in soured fermenting rice. The fish proteins break down via fermentation into its constituent amino acids. This results in a sour taste and also one of the five basic tastes, called umami in Japanese. In Japan, narezushi evolved into oshizushi and ultimately Edomae nigirizushi, which is what the world today knows as "sushi".