Just scoop the mixed rice into the mold and press it with your hands.

Introduction: Sushi is one of Japan’s traditional delicacies.

The main ingredient is rice cubes seasoned with sushi vinegar and maintained at human body temperature, plus fish, seafood, vegetables or eggs as ingredients. It is delicious and very popular among Japanese people.

Sushi has been recorded in the "Enki-shiki", a legal code of the Heian period completed in 927 AD.

Sushi at that time referred to a way of preserving fish.

Spread salt on the fish and press it with something heavy to allow it to ferment naturally.

When the sour taste develops, wrap it in crystal rice and eat it (the crystal rice must be crushed repeatedly after being cooked and cooled).

According to "Biographies of Dongyi - Biography of Japan", Japanese people eat sea food, that is, sashimi (sashimi), and then wrap it with rice grains to form a kind of instant food.

History: There are different opinions about the origin of sushi. In ancient Southeast Asia and coastal China, there were foods similar to sushi, but in different forms.

Japanese sushi is mainly made of rice rolled with seaweed or seaweed, sashimi, cucumber, meat floss, and burnt onions, and is served with mustard, horseradish, soy sauce, and vinegar.

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On the coast of China, there is a cylindrical rice ball made of glutinous rice, egg yolks, crispy skin, peanuts, vegetables, and cooked shrimps. It is called a glutinous rice stick. It is wrapped with a layer of cooked dough. The method is somewhat similar to nigiri sushi, but the materials and shape

different.

According to legend, glutinous rice sticks come from the Yue State (Zhejiang region) during the Spring and Autumn Period and are a traditional delicacy of the ancient Yue people.

In 200 AD after Goguryeo surrendered to China, that is, in the Later Han Dynasty, China began to spread the food of bream, which is said to have been invented by the Han people.

The definition in the dictionary is a food made of salt, vinegar, rice and steamed fish segments.

Sometimes fried crispy fish sticks are used as the main ingredient and mixed with rice balls. The shape is an oval ball, shaped like a rugby ball.

But most of the time it has no fixed shape. Bream is also made into steamed fish steaks with rice flour or steamed fish steaks with rice. Cooked rice is used and can be heated or mixed with cooked fish cold.

During the Song Dynasty, there were frequent wars in China. This was just a food to satisfy the hunger of the refugees. There were more varieties, made from a combination of vegetables, fish, meat, etc., but because it did not have a fixed form, it was different from Japanese sushi.

In the early days when Chinese characters were introduced to Japan, Japan added its own understanding of Chinese characters and replaced some Japanese foods with Chinese characters with similar or different meanings, so the Japanese "Suwuxi" became "鲊".

"Sasimi" became "鮨".

In the Later Han Dynasty, small food made of rice, raw fish and sauce that could be eaten in one bite also appeared in Japan. It was much smaller than the Chinese bream.

This is the ancestor of later Japanese sushi.

At the same time, China's bream (fish sticks mixed with rice) can be regarded as the brother or neighbor of sushi.

It's just that it is not widely circulated and popular nowadays.

In 700 AD, that is, the Nara period, Japan's early small food was named sushi. It was used as a festival food and became a common item and a symbol of Japanese food culture.