Here are 5 proper ways of eating sushi:

1. Eat with clean hands rather than chopsticks
There is a reason that we can find wet towel in a sushi restaurant. The towel is for cleaning your fingers before you eat, because the traditional way to eat nigiri sushi and maki is with your clean hands.

Lift a piece of sushi between your thumb and middle finger, feel the texture, keep it together, and eat that heavenly sushi.

2. But chopsticks is acceptable
Some people don’t like the smell of raw fish on their hands, so you will be forgiven for using chopsticks. Yet, using chopsticks can damage the taste and texture of the sushi. Chopsticks are there when you are about to eat sushi, in order to pick up sashimi and ginger.

3.Only use a hint of soy sauce and don’t let it touch the rice
Admit it, we sometimes pour too much soy sauce into the bowl. Wasting soy sauce is actually taboo in Japanese dining etiquette! It also a sign that
we suspect the fish is not fresh enough. So, only pour a thin layer of soy sauce. You can always add more later if needed.

4. No need to mix wasabi into the soy sauce
Yes, we love wasabi so much. Sometimes we make our own “sauce” by mixing wasabi and soy
sauce. In the traditional Japanese way, we only have to place some wasabi on the centre of the fish. Then we dip the sushi into the soy sauce.

However, mixing wasabi into the soy sauce is acceptable when you are eating sashimi.

5.Eat ginger between sushi pieces
Some of us like to eat ginger when we still have fish in our mouth. But, do you know that
the ginger is supposed to serve as a palette cleanser? So, the right way to eat ginger is between sushi pieces.

Source: jpassport.asia