J-Bar
An overview of Japanese restaurants in Munich and insight into where to find good and where to find the best Sushi in Munich - here we write about a few Japanese restaurants & pubs in Munich that we would generally recommend.
Tuna and salmon: How "typically Japanese" became what was not Japanese
The history of sushi holds some interesting surprises even for connoisseurs of the subject. Deep red tuna, delicate pink grained salmon - these are the widely known typical toppings for sushi. Really typical? [...]
Typical and less typical sushi toppings
Chicken, cream cheese, salmon in chili sauce - there's hardly anything today that you wouldn't find on sushi. But what are actually the typical, authentic toppings of sushi? It all depends... [...]
Faux amis - age sushi, sashimi, date maki: what appears to be sushi but isn't sushi
What exactly is sushi, what is not? It is not enough to deal only with the typical manifestations of sushi. Because sushi is more than we here in the West [...]
Maki sushi: sushi rolls or makimono
Sushi comes in many different shapes. The internationally probably best known sushi form are sushi rolls, iconic with the content in the middle and rice around it. The Japanese umbrella term for the various [...]
Special forms of sushi: Regional expressions over the centuries
Nigiri sushi, maki sushi and gunkan maki: these types of sushi are extremely well known in Japan and around the world. However, there are also some varieties of sushi that are not so well known in the West. In Japan [...]
Regional sushi specialties
Sushi has not only been invented internationally again and again, but has already developed quite differently in Japan over the past centuries. Many regions of Japan still know their [...]
Chirashi sushi - a Japanese poke bowl?
Chirashi sushi, a kind of bowl with rice and sushi topping, is now also quite well-known in Germany as one of the various forms of sushi. However, there are two types of chirashi sushi. In [...]
Gunkan or gunkan maki - classic insider tip
Sushi not only tastes good, there is also a wide variety of sushi shapes and types. A rarer, but still classic Japanese sushi form are gunkan (軍艦 ), also sometimes called gunkan-maki [...]
Nigiri - the classic sushi form
Nigiri are the typical Japanese sushi appetizers consisting of a pressed, roughly rectangular piece of rice with a topping applied. This topping (neta or sushidane) can be made of raw, marinated, [...]
