Sushi at home

I have here cooked rice. Six cups. If you have rice cooker, just use it. It's very easy. Just follow the directions that comes with it and then cook it. If you don't, you can cook it...

I'm going to show you how to make sushi soy sauce. Sushi soy sauce is seasoned soy sauce for sushi and sashimi. When you go to regular sushi restaurant, they usually pour soy sauce, Kikoman...

This is how Izumida-sensei, master chef at Clipper Sushi in Hokkaido, sharpens his knives and those for around 30 chefs he works with. The knives he uses most are the Deba bōchō and the Yanagiba...

To make sushi at home is easy, once you know, it's easy. First of all, you have to have Japanese short grain rice to make sushi, you can't substitute anything else, so you must have...

If you go to the fish market and your question is "Is this fresh" So they're going to say, "Yes, this is fresh." So that's not the right question...

So when you make sushi, you need a bamboo mat, obviously. The bamboo mat, nowadays you can get them American supermarket in the fish department. They sell for like $2. So, it's so easy to get...

Now I'm going to show you how to make a traditional roll. Traditional roll, the seaweed is outside. So I have done that, and the seaweed, half seaweed, and the left side up, with your hand and...

Sushi is a very, very delicate flavor. It's not huge. There's no sauce like a butter or Italian tomato sauce. Nothing on it. You enjoy the ingredients. You don't want to have...

Wasabi is a root vegetable grown in the mountain areas with very shallow running cold water and it has to be in area that is not muddy, like a very sandy area. It is very hard to grow wasabi. That is...

This is the shiso leaf. We use this for many, many dishes, not only the sushi but other things. For the sushi, you can find this shiso as a divider and also inside of the sushi as an ingredient....