If you are interested in a very healthy, and a different
catering experience, then sushi catering is just the thing
to get everyone talking.
In Japanese cuisine, sushi is a food made of vinegared rice,
usually topped with other ingredients including fish (cooked
or uncooked) and vegetables. Sushi as an English word has
come to refer to a complete dish with rice and toppings, and
in the sense used in this article. Sushi, written in kanji,
means "snack", and refers to the rice, but not fish
or other toppings.
Outside of Japan, sushi is sometimes misunderstood to mean
the raw fish by itself, or even any fresh raw-seafood dishes.
In Japan, sliced raw fish alone is called sashimi, and is
distinct from sushi.
There are various types of sushi: sushi served rolled inside
nori (dried and pressed layer sheets of seaweed or alga) called
makizushi or rolls; sushi made with toppings laid with hand-formed
clumps of rice called nigirizushi; toppings stuffed into a
small pouch of fried tofu called inarizushi; and toppings
served scattered over a bowl of sushi rice called chirashi-zushi.
All sushi has a base of specially prepared rice, and is complemented
with other ingredients. Sushi rice is made with white, short-grained,
Japanese rice mixed with a dressing made of rice vinegar,
sugar, salt, kombu, and occasionally sake. It is usually cooled
to room temperature before being used for a filling in a sushi.
In some fusion cuisine restaurants, short grain brown rice
and wild rice are also used.
Sushi rice (sushi-meshi) is prepared with short-grain Japanese
rice, which has a consistency that differs from long-grain
strains such as India. The essential quality is its stickiness.
Sushi catering is a specialist catering preference, and guests
who enjoy sushi will find this to be a true catering delight.
If it's originality you're after, then sushi is
the magic word!