I need to learn to eat sushi?!

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Sushi can be a little scary if you haven`t tried it before, but there is nothing to be worried about. Sushi is an amazing dish and has a light, delicate taste.

I would start off with some easy to eat sushi like makizushi (sushi rolls) with things like Salmon Roll, Avocado Roll and Cucumber Roll. Then try some Nigirizuhi with toppings like maguro (tuna), sake (salmon) and ebi (shrimp). I enjoy my sushi with a little wasabi and soy sauce and like to have some pickled ginger to cleanse the palate after each sushi.

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Buffet is perfect. Take one each of the vegetarian ones and try them. Do not be afraid of the seaweed it actually tastes good. It is hardly noticeable in a California Roll. Many people drown their sushi in wasabi (green hot paste) mixed in soy sauce, that's fine at first but use less dip as you get used to flavors. Move on to Intermediate stuff when you are ready. Everybody (non Japanese) I know started this way.

Beginner sushi:
California roll, fake or cooked crab, avocado, cucumber, rice, nori (seaweed)
There are hundreds of variations most of which have little or no fish.
Philadelphia roll, cream cheese, smoked salmon, rice, nori
Kappa Maki (roll), cucumber, rice, nori on outside
Oshinko Maki, japanese pickled radish (yellow kind), rice, nori
Kampyo Maki, sweet guord, rice, nori
Inari, sweet tofu sack stuffed with sushi rice
Tamago, omelet on a pad of rice (nigiri style)

Intermediate:
Unagi, cooked eel with a sweet sauce nigiri style
Spicy tuna roll, usually so spicy you can't really tell it's raw fish. It's mixed into a paste consistency.
Salmon Skin Hand Roll, cooked with veggies in a cone of nori (temaki style)
Salmon nigiri, honestly a very easy nigiri style sushi to eat.
California Roll, but with some unagi or raw fish drapped on top. (Rainbow roll etc.)

I'm fat.

Bring a sandwich.

OK, seriously, without knowing exactly what types of sushi will be served at your buffet, it's really hard to give you a good answer. Unlike a sushi bar, you probably won't be allowed to choose what sushi you get to eat -- and since it's an event, you might be among several others faced with the same situation.

Shrimp sushi: I would recommend the most familiar ingredient to us westerners, shrimp. It's just boiled shrimp on a sweet/sour ball of rice. There might be wasabi (green Japanese horseradish) in it so if this is a no-no for you, just take the shrimp off, brush off the green stuff, replace shrimp and eat. You don't eat the tail.

Chances are, less sushi-savvy eaters will go for the cooked stuff first, so make sure you dig in first.
OR you could go out on a limb and expand your horizons? Try the raw stuff. Jesus will forgive you.

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What do you mean that you are worried that you can't handle it? I have been hearing the same story from family and so called friends ever since sushi came to this country.. Who started this nonsense?
I am so tired of hearing the moans and groans of the anti sushi crowd who have never even tried it.
Can't handle sushi - yeah right.

You must be worried about the "raw fish" part of sushi.

Sushi is Not all raw fish. The word sushi is actually referring to the rice. There are rolls with just veggies (california roll), various ones with cooke shrimp andother seafood.

Just take one of everything and try them all.

You can choose to use your hands or chopsticks. For rolls, use your hands. Add a little/ pea sized wasabi into the soy sauce, stir it with chopsticks and dip your sushi in it. That's the right way of eating sushi

there are tons of cooked choices, vegitable choices, and many others

and NO, california rolls aren't just veggies... and they aren't crab, they are Krab (with a K, also called immitation crab meat, made from cooked fish)

Open your mouth, stick it in, chew and swallow. Pretty straightforward.

eat it! sushi is yummy! try the california roll... it's not fish, it's crab. if that helps at all. Good luck :)

don't eat it, pretend and spit it out