See the 12 California Regions. For Tourism and Travel Purposes, the state is divided into 12 regions that conveniently represent geographic bounds of either counties or natural features such as deserts, mountains and bays.
Sushi is the most popular Japanese dish known worldwide. Sushi is mainly cooked rice with vinegar combined with other ingredients, usually raw fish or other seafood. Sushi is mainly made up of two parts, shari and neta. Shari is the cooked rice with vinegar, while neta refers to the various other ingredients.There are many types of sushi; nigiri-zushi (hand shaped sushi), oshi-zushi (pressed sushi), maki-zushi (rolled sushi) and chirashi-zushi (scattered sushi).Sushi, literally translated means sour tasting, this is mainly because of the vinegar rice and fermented fish, which was originally used to make sushi. Oshizushi â pressed sushi in the shape of a square. 2  Ingredients are topped with rice which is pressed together with the help of a wooden mold. 3  Makizushi â neta (fish and other ingredients) rolled in shari and nori (seaweed) with the help of a bamboo mat (makisu).
Sushi can be prepared with either brown or white rice. It is often prepared with raw seafood, but some common varieties of sushi use cooked ingredients or are vegetarian. Raw fish (or occasionally other meat) sliced and served without rice is called  sashimi .Sushi is often served with pickled ginger (ã¬ãª gari), wasabi, and soy sauce. Sake-zushi (Kyushu-style sushi) is a variety where instead of rice vinegar, rice wine is used in the mixture of the rice, and is topped with shrimp, sea bream, octopus, shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots and shredded omelette.