I love going out for sushi and white rice
Yeah me too! It's so delicious. Do you eat the raw fish too?
Yes I like both sushi and sashimi - the thinly sliced raw fish
Me too. Although I only eat it sometimes. Do you know if they have to treat the fish in any way before it's eaten raw?
I know that there is a dish called narezushi which the fish is stored in fermented rice, but i also read about a lady in California who got a tapeworm from her sushi!
Ewww... I was afraid of that. Well thankfully I took a course of de worming medication after my last vacation.
strongly associated with Japanese culture.
Early history.
The earliest form of sushi, a dish today known as narezushi, has its probable origin with paddy fields along the Mekong river in Southeast Asia. The prototypical narezushi is made by lacto-fermenting fish with salt and rice in order to control putrefaction. Spreading southwards down the Mekong, narezushi then entered Austronesia. In Japan the dish's distribution overlaps with the introduction of wet-field rice cultivation during the Yayoi period.
Narezushi appears in the Chinese dictionary in the
confused with "sashimi", a related dish in Japanese cuisine that consists of thinly sliced raw fish, or occasionally meat, and an optional serving of rice.
History.
Sushi originates in a Southeast Asian dish, known today as "narezushi" ( – "salted fish"), stored in fermented rice for possibly months at a time. The lacto-fermentation of the rice prevented the fish from spoiling; the rice would be discarded before consumption of the fish. This early type of sushi became an important