Originally Posted by
IAH-OIL-TRASH
Actually it just means raw fish
If I put sashimi on a bed of rice, it's just sashimi on rice. If enclose it in rice and wrap it with nori, the whole becomes sushi. I'd rather have sashimi in a poke preparation
Well to be technical -- since you asked -- sushi is actually a very particular type of rice served by hand at a particular (body) temperature -- with fish on top -- sashimi has always been raw fish - regardless of presentation....
And if you wrap something in dried seaweed (nori) -- which in Japan is last course before soup -- that's not sushi -- it's probably sushi to westerners - but it's maki to Japanese - lol - but never called sushi -- but we're debating nuance lol to most westerners....