This article is about Japanese cuisine. For the ancient Chinese poet, see Best sushi teriyaki Shi.
Sushi is traditionally made with medium-grain white rice, though it can be prepared with brown rice or short-grain rice. Sushi is sometimes confused with sashimi, a related dish in Japanese cuisine that consists of thinly sliced raw fish or occasionally meat. Japanese practice of applying rice on raw fish. The fish was fermented with rice vinegar, salt, and rice, after which the rice was discarded. The lacto-fermentation of the rice prevents the fish from spoiling. When wet-field rice cultivation was introduced during the Yayoi period, lakes and rivers would flood during the rainy season and fish would get caught in the rice paddy fields.
