This seems like one of those higher end sushi counters, where you get one or two pieces at a time. You generally shouldn't put rice in the soy sauce as the rice would fall apart. And you really shouldn't pass the sushi with your chopsticks to another set of chopsticks. All of the other things are fine in an izakaya setting. A colleague of mine who was in sales and had to make sure to cater to our customer's wishes was absolutely fine with mixing wasabi with the soy sauce for example. She one hundred percent knew about etiquette.
Wasabi and soy sauce one is a lie. You are also supposed to eat ginger before and after every dish
Yea I was like WTF. I went to Japan for work for several months and when the guys at Yokohama office took me eating sushi that's what they did.
Unless you hand me a soy sauce pipette i'll just dip the rice part in the soy sauce, thank you very much.
And wtf is tiny tiny rice?
I think the tiny tiny rice is just sushi with very little rice. You can just see a smaller ball of rice under the fish bit.
Sashimi is usually just fish without rice. Sometimes rice is served as a side. I think it is meant for people that order Nigiri with little rice. They should just order Sashimi.
Of course, the one that you make.
But if you are going to have it from a chef who says so at their restaurant, show some respect to their culture or else spend your money elsewhere.
What's with the wasabi and soy mixing? I saw someone do that recently for the first time. He looked very confident at it and I assumed i had been doing it wrong all this time. Why is mixing a thing suddenly?
Why is mixing a thing suddenly?
Definitely not new, people have been doing this since at least the 90s, when I was a kid.
I also know plenty of Japanese people who say dipping the rice lightly into soy sauce is the correct method, so take literally any "sushi etiquette" guide with a grain of salt.
Eat your food in whatever way brings you joy. Anyone that says otherwise is a pointlessly-gatekeeping idiot.
So am I supposed to flip the sushi over to dip the fish side in the soy sauce? That seems a bit awkward
Nobody mixes wasabi with soy sauce. They mix horseradish paste that’s dyed green with soy sauce, because real wasabi is prohibitively expensive and most people have never actually had it, myself included.