Is sushi from Mongolia, or China?

Question

And what about teriyaki? China, right?

Answer 1

The WORD 'sushi' is Japanese, as is the word 'teriyaki'.  The DISH called teriyaki is Japanese.  And while the practice of eating seafood raw is too common throughout the world to be called Chinese or Japanese or anything else, the specific WAY of preparation called 'sushi' is Japanese.

Answer 2

Modern day Sushi and Teriyakki are Japanese dishes.  However, the origins can be traced back to China.  I guess it depends upon how far you want to dig in history.

Answer 3

As you can see by the all the different answers, this is a debatable quesion.  Listen to these.  (I think we can elimiate the French dude).

1. Sushi began centuries ago in Japan as a method of preserving fish. It is told that the origins of sushi came from countries of Southeastern Asia. Cleaned, raw fish were pressed between layers of salt and weighted with a stone. After a few weeks, the stone was removed and replaced with a light cover, and a few months after that, the fermented fish and rice were considered ready to eat. Some restaurants in Tokyo still serve this original style of sushi, called narezushi made with freshwater carp. Its flavor is so strong that it obscures the fish's identity altogether, and narezushi is something of an acquired taste.

It wasn't until the eighteenth century that a clever chef named Yohei decided to forego the fermentation and serve sushi in something resembling its present form. It became very popular and two distinct styles emerged Kansai style, from the city of Osaka in the Kansai region, and Edo style, from Tokyo, which was then called Edo. Osaka has always been the commercial capital of Japan, and the rice merchants there developed sushi that consisted primarily of seasoned rice mixed with other ingredients and formed into decorative, edible packages. Tokyo, located on a bay then rich with fish and shellfish, produced nigirizushi, featuring a select bit of seafood on a small pad of seasoned rice. Although the ornamental sushi of the Kansai region is still very popular, it is nigirizushi that foreigners are familiar with.

Today, even Japanese consider nigirizushi the origin of sushi, the truth is different. Kansai sushi (Osaka Sushi) has much more history and techniques than nigirizushi.

2. (Not so pausible) Did you know that Sushi was invented in Japan, but it was invented by a Frenchman? In 1865, Tokyo, a Frenchman opened his french bakery in downtown Tokyo. But 100 years ago, Japanese did not understand western food, and therefore his business was slow. But as the French baker observed: Japanese people like raw fish. How about trying topping my French bread with raw fish for a change? After the French baker topped his french bread with raw fish, Japanese citizens flooded his store. Then later, the Japanese replaced the bottom portion of sushi, which was the bread, with vinegar rice. Sushi's original name is actually "sumeshi". "Su" means vinegar. "Meshi" means rice. But when people start to say it fast "Sumeshi, sumeshi, sushi!" It became just "Sushi"!

3. The origin of sushi is not Japan. It is said that sushi was introduced into Japan in the 7th century from China. People began making sushi to preserve fish by fermentation when there were no refrigerators. Since salt and rice were needed in order to ferment fish, sushi became to be closely related to rice in Japan. Then, it developed into current sushi which combine fish and rice.

4. We can trace sushi's origin back to the 4th century BC in Southeast Asia. As a preserved food, the salted fish, fermented with rice, was an important source of protein. The cleaned and gutted fish were kept in rice so that the natural fermentation of the rice helped preserve the fish. This type of sushi is called nare-zushi, and was taken out of storage after a couple of months of fermentation, and then only the fish was consumed while the rice was discarded.

Over time, it spread throughout China, and later, around the 8th century AD, in the Heian period, it was introduced into Japan. Since Japanese preferred to eat rice together with fish, the sushi, called seisei-zushi, became popular at the end of Muromachi period. This type of sushi was consumed while the fish was still partly raw and the rice had not lost its flavor. In this way, sushi became more of a cuisine rather than a way to preserve food.

Answer 4

wow....japan

Answer 5

China.  The main idea in the preparation of sushi is the preservation and fermentation of fish with salt and rice, a process that has been traced back to China and Southeast Asia where fish and rice fermentation dishes still exist today.

There is also the California Roll, which is my favorite.  This obviously originated in California AFTER the original sushi.

Answer 6

"Teriyaki" is a composite Japanese word formed from Tare (or Tari) meaning "marinated in soy sauce", and Yaki, meaning grilled.  So while Chinese may have grilled marinated food before Japan, there was no "Teriyaki" before Japan.

Sushi originated in Korea in the 5th or 6th Century, before migrating to Japan via China.

Answer 7

sushi originated from china... teriyaki is from japan

Answer 8

Stupid Mongolians destroying ma chitty wall

Answer 9

Teryaki is Japanese, actually, I think (my professor who lived in Japan for years says it is).  As far as I know, sushi is from China (and then moved to Japan).  I didn't know sushi was even made in Mongolia.

Answer 10

Japan