I have never had Sushi prepared with brown rice.  Somehow it seems wrong to me.
That certainly sounds non-traditional, but it's probably a little healthier for you.
The lacto-fermentation of the rice prevents fish from spoiling. In one Asian dish, narezushi, salted fish was stored in rice for months at a time.
That's pretty crazy. Is that a popular dish today?
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