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 - slices of fish on vinegared rice with wasabi. The word sushi is often ambiguous for non-native Japanese. We think of it as being interchangeable with raw fish. Sushi is vinegared rice topped with other ingredients. Sashimi, which is slices of raw fish alone, is not sushi because it isn't accompanied with rice. Originally, sushi was fermented fish with rice preserved in salt, and this was a staple dish in Japan for a thousand years until the Edo Period (1603 to 1868) when contemporary sushi was developed.