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, [...]
Sushi varieties & sushi shapes - the overview
Anyone who sits down in a sushi restaurant today, or even just looks at the different types of sushi that parade past the tables on the conveyor belt at Kaiten Sushi, quickly realizes: sushi is not [...]
Kakushizushi - hidden sushi
Sushi is still one of our favorite topics - besides the usual known types, shapes or varieties of sushi, there are also a few very special ones, which we always like to present in our blog. And if you are very lucky, you can sometimes try these specialties in our restaurant or delivery service...
