Sense the 8th century sushi has been a very popular and custom dish in Japan making it rather difficult to fathom how it is becoming so popular today in the United States. Sushi is becoming an entree that can be found in a variety of different settings around the United States such as college campuses and cafeterias, your local corner store or even at your average restaurant. Although there are many different wide varieties of how sushi is made and prepared in Japan, only “Uramaki”, and more so “Makizushi” have become very popular here in the United States. Sense sushi has become increasingly popular in the United States new rolls have been made and named all over the country, many of their creators innovating from one of the initial rolls created in the United States; the California roll. What may seem even more bizarre is that many of these Americanized sushi rolls are also now being offered back in their traditional origin of Japan. We as American's still do have a lot to learn about this Japanese custom, we also may even have some more innovation to share with them, but as this dish continues to grow in the United States so will the number of sushi bars.
In Japan sushi is prepared in a very large number of ways. Rice bowls with different kinds of raw fish and vegetables to top it is a very popular and quick dish to prepare in Japan. Another popular dish in Japan that a version of can also be found here in Hawaii is prepared by deep-frying tofu filled with sushi rice inside. Probably one of the most traditional preparations of sushi is by gutting and skinning the fish then allowing them to sit in a wooden barrel for 6 months while draining water using a pickling stone. This is referred to as fermented sushi. Here in the United States, we also have choices as to which kind of sushi we would like to eat however, us American's are only choosing, the majority of the time, from a menu with different