With globalization, “Eastern” dishes have become part of the eating habits in the Western part of the planet as well.
It has become a custom (and fashion) to eat lunch or dinner at the so-called All you can eat “oriental buffets” where, among many things, you can delight your palate with the typical Japanese “dish” called sushi (寿司).
Remember, to begin, that sushi is really Japanese and not Chinese as some people think (even if we say that sushi was born thanks to China).
It is also true that All you can eats (and Japanese restaurants in general) in the West are for the most part run by the Chinese, even if some pretend to be Japanese or to have Japanese cooks…
In this article I’ll seek to explain what this mystical sushi is and how it’s different from sashimi, another typical Japanese dish. [Read more…]