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Sushi is often confused with sashimi, sashimi is another japanese dish consisting of thinly sliced raw fish or sometimes meat and an optional serving of rice. Have you ever had either of these?
Sushi is often confused with sashimi, a related Japanese dish consisting of thinly sliced raw fish or occasionally meat, and an optional serving of rice.
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Sushi
Sushi can be prepared with either brown or white rice. It is often prepared with raw seafood, but some varieties of sushi use cooked ingredients, and many others are vegetarian. Sushi is often served with pickled ginger, wasabi, and soy sauce. Daikon radish is popular as a garnish. Sushi is often confused with sashimi, a related Japanese dish consisting of thinly sliced raw fish or occasionally meat, and an optional serving of rice. Sushi originates in a Southeast Asian dish, known today as "narezushi" ( – "salted fish"), stored in fermented rice for possibly months at a time. The lacto-fermentation of the rice prevented the fish from spoiling; the rice would be discarded before consumption of the fish.
Sashimi
Sashimi (; , ) is a Japanese delicacy consisting of very fresh raw meat or fish sliced into thin pieces. The word "sashimi" means "pierced body", i.e. "刺身" = "sashimi", where 刺し = "sashi" (pierced, stuck) and 身 = "mi" (body, meat). This word dates from the Muromachi period, and was possibly coined when the word "切る" = "kiru" (cut), the culinary step, was considered too inauspicious to be used by anyone other than samurai. This word may derive from the culinary practice of sticking the fish's tail and fin to the slices for the purpose of identifying the fish being eaten. Another possibility for the name could come from the traditional method of harvesting.
Japanese cuisine
Japanese cuisine encompasses the regional and traditional foods of Japan, which have developed through centuries of social and economic changes. The is based on rice with miso soup and other dishes; there is an emphasis on seasonal ingredients. Side dishes often consist of fish, pickled vegetables, and vegetables cooked in broth. Seafood is common, often grilled, but also served raw as sashimi or in sushi. Seafood and vegetables are also deep-fried in a light batter, as tempura. Apart from rice, staples include noodles, such as soba and udon. Japan also has many simmered dishes such as fish products in broth called oden, or beef in sukiyaki and nikujaga.
Shiso
Perilla frutescens var. "crispa", also called shiso (, from Japanese ) is a variety of species "Perilla frutescens" of the genus "Perilla", belonging to the mint family, Lamiaceae. Shiso is a perennial plant that may be cultivated as an annual in temperate climates. The plant occurs in red (purple-leaved) and green-leaved forms. There are also frilly ruffled-leaved forms, called "chirimen-jiso", and forms that are red only on top, called "katamen-jiso". This herb was previously known as the "beefsteak plant", a mostly obsolete name. It is sometimes referred to by its genus name, "Perilla", which is ambiguous, as the name also includes the "Perilla frutescens", which is a different culinary cultigen.
Donburi
The simmering sauce varies according to season, ingredients, region, and taste. A typical sauce might consist of "dashi" flavored with soy sauce and mirin. Proportions vary, but there is normally three to four times as much dashi as soy sauce and mirin. For "oyakodon", Tsuji (1980) recommends dashi flavored with light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and sugar. For "gyūdon", Tsuji recommends water flavored with dark soy sauce and mirin. Donburi can be made from almost any ingredients, including leftovers. Traditional Japanese donburi include the following:  Gyūdon, literally beef bowl, is a Japanese dish consisting of a bowl of rice topped with beef and onion simmered in a mildly sweet sauce flavored with dashi (fish and seaweed stock), soy sauce and mirin (sweet rice wine).
Kuai (dish)
Kuai was a Chinese dish consisting of finely cut strips of raw fish or meat, which was popular and commonly eaten in the early Chinese dynasties. According to the "Book of Rites" compiled between 202 BC and 220 AD, "kuai" consists of small thin slices or strips of raw meat, which are prepared by first thinly slicing the meat and then cutting the thin slices into strips. In modern times, the dishes are more often referred to as "raw fish slices" () or as "yusheng" (). The type of fish commonly used in ancient times included carp (鯉) and mandarin fish (鳜), while in modern times salmon (鮭) is commonly used.
Hoe (food)
Hoe () refers to several varieties of raw food dishes in Korean cuisine. There are uncooked "hoe" () as well as blanched "sukhoe" (). "Hoe" (), the raw fish or meat dish, can be divided into "saengseon-hoe" (), filleted raw fish, and "yukhoe" (), sliced raw meat. "Saengseon-hoe" () can be either "hwareo-hoe" () made from freshly killed fish, or "seoneo-hoe" () made using aged fish. "Mulhoe" () is a cold raw fish soup. "Sukhoe" () is a blanched fish, seafood, meat, or vegetable dish. "Ganghoe" () is a dish of rolled and tied ribbons made with blanched vegetables such as water dropworts and scallions.