Handy Facts for Eating in Restaurants

Japanese Sushi Words

Types of Sushi

Chirashi sushi (Iso-don, gomoku sushi)

Sushi rice in a bowl with the raw fish and other ingredients on top

Futomaki

Large roll

Norimake

A roll with nori seaweed on the outside

California roll

Cooked crab meat (usually not real crab), smelt or flying fish roe, and avocado

Nigiri sushi

A slice of fish or other topping atop vinegared rice

Onigiri

Balls made with plain steamed rice with various stuffings

Oshizushi

Sushi rice and other ingredients pressed into a box or mold

Sashimi

Sliced or prepared raw fish

Sushi

Anything made with vinegared rice

Temaki

Hand rolls, usually cone-shaped

Fish

hamachi

yellow-tail, a kind of tuna

uni

sea-urchin roe (the eggs of the sea urchin)

maguro

regular tuna

toro

fatty tuna, a lighter color pink than maguro and more of a delicacy

ikura

salmon row - the large transparent orange eggs of the salmon