Sushi is world famous and the birth coincidentally

Sushi is a symbol of Japan but originates from China and has experienced many ups and downs of history to become an art like today.

Sushi today is in fact an evolutionary version of an ancient food preservation method. In the past, when there was no refrigerator, the Chinese put fish in the rice and vinegar and fermented it, helping to preserve the fish for longer. Shortly thereafter, this method has spread and spread widely in Japan - where the main source of food is seafood. Even with this way people can reserve and eat gradually within a few months. However, because the fish will be fermented, they will have a change in taste.

In the past, Japanese people mainly preserved fish by putting inside rice rice mixed with vinegar and wrapped in seaweed.

Sushi is the acronym for "sumeshi", "su" means vinegar and "meshi" means rice. Under the Edo period, rice vinegar was born in place of previous vinegar so it had a more aromatic flavor. So when mixed with rice, it also brings a taste that is easy to eat and does not alter the fresh taste of fish meat as before. This is also the time when sushi started to show remarkable changes.

At the beginning of the 19th century, a resident of Edo moved to Tokyo called Hanaya Yohei, who created Nigiri sushi , which is the type of sushi with a slice of seafood placed on top of the vinegar mix as we still eat today. .

Nigiri sushi is considered the first type of sushi to be produced with squeezed vinegar mixed with rice and a slice of seafood placed on top.

In 1923, under the impact of the Kanto earthquake, the source of seafood in Japan became more and more abundant. Raw materials are abundant, making sushi develop under many different versions. This time sushi is a snack that people can easily buy on the streets of Tokyo. After World War II, street sushi stalls were gradually closed. Due to sanitary conditions, sushi began to appear on restaurant tables. Gradually sushi is not only a dish that is loved by all Japanese people but it also developed into an art, a symbol that makes people think immediately of beautiful Japan.

So far, sushi seems to have "spread" around the world with many different types, but the most popular ones are Nagiri, Maki and Gunkanmaki . Nagiri Sushi is the oldest "version" from around the early 19th century and also has the simplest part with a slice of seafood placed on top of a rice vinegar mix. Maki is a kind of curled up in seaweed, inside is a rather rich core such as crab bar, salmon, tuna, vegetables . popular in the 20th century. Gunkanmaki is a type of sushi with The rice underneath and a layer of salmon or sea urchin . are covered on the surface and wrapped around the seaweed.

Today sushi becomes a culture and symbol of Japanese cuisine, with popular types like Nagiri, Maki and Gunkanmaki.

Although sushi is a popular dish all over the world, few people know that this dish has been " quite spoiled " by Westerners because it is not familiar with ingredients such as rice, seaweed . until the 1950s, 1960. When there are changes in recipes, Westerners are just beginning to love this dish. The most popular type of sushi here is California Roll with the bright orange salmon eggs surrounding the sushi piece.