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).
Nigiri: Pieces of fish on top of two balls of sushi rice, sometimes a slice of roasted Nori (seaweed) is put on to bind the fish to the rice and to add flavor and eye appeal. One order is 2 pieces. Gunkan Nigiri: There is another form of Nigiri called Gunkan Nigiri. Gunkan means boat and this sushi gets the name from the way the main ingredient is held in place on top of the sushi rice. It is in a boat shape. The three main types of sushi served as Gunkan Nigiri are Tobiko, Ikura (pictured), and Uni.