fried tofu pouches prepared by cooking in sweet cooking sake, soy sauce, and water
A Japanese sushi-bar term for green tea
Fried foods either deep-fat fried or pan-fried
Spanish mackerel
Red clam or ark shell
Sweet shrimp, usually served raw
Conger eel-and-cucumber rolls
Monkfish liver
Yellow round clam
Abalone
B
Small water snails
Beer
English word for the Japanese Katsuo
Adult yellowtail
Pork
C
Vinegared rice wrapped in a thin egg crepe
Bed of sushi rice with other ingredients mixed on top
Medium fatty tuna, from the upper belly. See also toro and otoro
D
Giant, long white radish, sweeter than round, red radishes
Basic soup and cooking stock made with kombu and katsuoboshi
A large bowl for noodle and rice dishes
E
Boiled Shrimp. See also Ama-Ebi
Blowfish. Toxic if improperly prepared
A type of sushi which is wrapped in a crepe
A fat roll filled with rice, sweetened cooked egg, pickled gourd, and bits of vegetables
Large roll
G
A sushi-bar term for pickled ginger
Long, slender burdock root
Sesame seeds
Pan-fried, sautted, or steamed, stuffed wonton or other wrappers, akin to potstickers
Beef tataki
H
Yellowtail
Yellowtail collars, often served broiled
Clam
Chopsticks
Black seaweed in tiny threads
Halibut
General Japanese term for knives
Surf clam
Scallops
I
Squid
Squid's tentacles
Salmon roe
Char
Sardine
Daikon-radish sprouts
Swordfish. See mekajiki
Crab meat
Dried gourd strips
Cucumber, when used in a roll
Cucumber-filled maki-zushi
Flounder, flatfish
A cutlet. Katsu refers to fried foods made coated with bread crumbs, as opposed to tempura, fried foods coated with batter
Bonito fish. An English word for a fish related to the Skipjack
Dried bonito fish
herring roe
Saltwater carp
Kelp, dried; a kind of seaweed, in sheet form
Black sesame seeds
Snapper
M
Tuna
Tuna temaki
Blue marlin
A roll made with nori seaweed on the outside, a layer of rice, and a core of vegetables or other fillings
Mat made of bamboo strips to roll up makesushi or norimake sushi
Trout
Blue marlin / swordfish.
Sweet rice wine for cooking
Long neck clam. Sometimes called Geoduck
