How Do You Eat Sushi for the First Time

Receive your plate of sushi from the chef or waitress.Put a small amount of soy sauce in a bowl or on your plate.Dip a piece of sushi into the soy sauce. … Eat the sushi. … Chew the sushi completely, allowing the flavor to coat the inside of your mouth.

What is the correct way to eat sushi?

Turn the sushi upside down with your thumb, forefinger, and middle finger so that the fish part will fall on your tongue. This is said to be the proper way to eat sushi: the rice part won’t get soaked in the soy sauce, allowing you to eat the sushi beautifully.

Why does sushi taste so bad?

Maybe you got some really bad rice (too much vinegar) or fish, or there was too much wasabi on it. Or maybe your palate is especially sensitive to the vinegar on the rice and thus everything seemed sour. If you want to pursue this, try ordering sashimi – raw fish without the rice, and see how that goes.