English word senses marked with place category "Sushi"
Parent categories: Foods, Japan, Eating, Food and drink, Countries, Countries in Asia, Human behaviour, Polities, Places, Asia, Human, Names, Earth, Eurasia, Nature
Total 32 word senses
- B.C. roll (Noun) A form of makizushi popular in British Columbia, containing barbecued salmon, cucumber, and other varying ingredients.
- California roll (Noun) A popular form of sushi in the United States, commonly made with avocado, cucumber, and crab meat, and wrapped with rice.
- Michigan roll (Noun) A form of sushi made with spicy tuna, avocado, and other ingredients.
- awabi (Noun) Sushi made from abalone.
- dynamite roll (Noun) A type of Western-style sushi usually containing a piece of prawn tempura and capelin roe with vegetables and Japanese mayonnaise.
- fugu (Noun) Blowfish: a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins.
- funazushi (Noun) A form of narezushi made with nigorobuna (or sometimes other carp), packed in salt and rice and aged for several years.
- futomaki (Noun) Large cylindrical sushi, often vegetarian, with nori on the outside and fillings chosen to complement each other.
- gunkanmaki (Noun) A form of nigiri sushi consisting of an oval clump of rice wrapped in nori, forming a vessel that is filled with another ingredient.
- handroll (Noun) A piece of sushi in the form of a cone of seaweed filled with rice, fish, vegetables etc.
- hiramasa (Noun) Sushi made from the yellowtail amberjack, Seriola lalandi.
- ikizukuri (Noun) The preparation of sashimi from live seafood.
- maguro (Noun) Tuna meat, eaten raw as sushi or sashimi.
- maki (Noun) makizushi, a form of sushi that is rolled.
- makizushi (Noun) Rolled sushi.
- masago (Noun) capelin roe
- nantaimori (Noun) The practice of serving sashimi or sushi on the naked body of a man.
- negihama (Noun) A type of sushi, yellowtail and scallion.
- nigiri (Noun) Regular sushi: a piece of raw fish (or other topping) on top of a small oblong brick of sticky white rice.
- nyotaimori (Noun) The practice of serving sashimi or sushi on the naked body of a woman.
- onigirazu (Noun) A form of sushi having the filling sandwiched between portions of rice instead of formed into a circle.
- oshinko (Noun) traditional Japanese pickled vegetable mix
- sashimi (Noun) A dish consisting of thin slices or pieces of raw fish or meat.
- sashimi (Noun) A thin slice or piece of raw fish or meat.
- sushi (Noun) A Japanese dish made of small portions of sticky white rice flavored with vinegar, usually wrapped in seaweed and filled or topped with fish, vegetables or meat.
- sushi pizza (Noun) A type of sushi originating in Canada, made from fried rice patties topped with raw seafood and avocado slices and drizzled with condiments.
- sushi roll (Noun) A type of sushi wrapped in seaweed; usually cut into bite-sized pieces.
- sushi train (Noun) A conveyor belt used to direct freshly-made sushi around a restaurant, allowing diners to select the dishes they want.
- sushiya (Noun) A sushi chef.
- tobiko (Noun) A nigirizushi (hand-formed sushi) made with roe of flying fish.
- unagi (Noun) A type of sushi made from freshwater eel.
- uramaki (Noun) A form of cylindrical sushi with two or more fillings, and (unlike makimono) having the rice on the outside and the nori inside.
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