It's amusing but I don't really get why it matters. I don't want my sushi to drip, so I jiggle it a little bit. Seems like there's no downside other than some dude telling you not to do it.
Same with the ginger in soy sauce. I don't do it but if someone likes it dipped, I don't see the problem.
Food has a lot of strange, unwritten rules and elitist attitudes about the "right" way to cook or eat something. The French get that reputation a lot, but it shows up elsewhere too.
It's a clump of rice being held together by moisture... when you start shaking it around there's a good chance it's gonna fall apart and make a mess on your plate, the table, or the soy sauce bowl. That's also why you dip the fish in first and not the rice, because the rice soaking up the soy sauce will weaken its integrity and could also lead to it falling apart.
Some things aren't important, like the ginger stuff (it's a little weird to use ginger that way, but it's okay to be a little weird), but some things are there for a reason.
It's one of the reasons I'm pretty staunchly opposed to traditionalism in general: if the reason we do things is always "because it's tradition" then people who don't care about tradition might not realize which things are done for an actual reason and which things aren't. It's much better to teach people the reason we do things rather than "that's just how it's done".
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u/godofpumpkins 10d ago
It's amusing but I don't really get why it matters. I don't want my sushi to drip, so I jiggle it a little bit. Seems like there's no downside other than some dude telling you not to do it.
Same with the ginger in soy sauce. I don't do it but if someone likes it dipped, I don't see the problem.