Okay! Amanda PLEASE don't log off yet! Because I am VERY curious about something. See that picture? What is that on the top of the fish and what does it taste like? I've seen it over and over again in pictures and I can't figure out what it is! And I can't imagine what it would taste like.
I watched a very funny episode of Two and a Half Men where Jake is visiting his grandmother. She serves him sushi (just like in that picture) and he takes a bite. The top part pulled away and he quickly spit it out. Then he said he wanted to get the taste out and he accidently swallowed some wasabi. It was a very funny episode.
Me log off? Never.
Well, in this most recent photo... The three flat pieces towards the top of the pic are (left to right) shrimp, tuna and salmon. Usually, flat pieces like that are adhered to the bottom bed of rice with a bit of wasabi (not too much... it's usually not very spicy at all)... and the rice itself is special sticky sushi rice. But, yeah, getting a full mouthful of wasabi would be painful... eating too much wasabi actually makes my sinuses hurt.
Then, the four rolled pieces to the bottom right of this pic... well... I can't really tell what's inside, but they're probably a combo of fish (maybe cooked or maybe raw) and veggies. The black wrapper holding the roll together is seaweed.
And, in this pic...
The black stripe is seaweed. Which I think is extremely delicious. Seaweed has a very distinctive flavor... it really tastes just like the ocean. I don't know how else to describe it. In some ways the seaweed part tastes more "seafoody" than the fish itself (which again, sushi fish is often surprisingly mild).