Food & Drinks
A Sushi Master’s Five Simple Rules for Not Embarrassing Yourself
Please, for the love of God, do not ask for more soy sauce.
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If there’s one type of restaurant where rules matter, it’s a sushi bar.
Consider the legendary Sukiyabashi Jiro in Tokyo. At the three-Michelin-star restaurant and subject of the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, cooks apprentice for a decade at minimum and must become expert at handling the fish before they’re even allowed to pick up a knife and cut it.