Etiquette is kind of hilarious. People don't realize culturally it's fine to pick up Sushi with your hands. While it's 'rude' to take more than 2 bites of the sushi or to mix your wasabi and soy sauce together and turn it into a dip.
With that said I can't imagine many who work in a sushi restaurant actually care about that stuff.
Soy sauce is not traditionally a dipping sauce, it’s a cooking ingredient. It only gets used like that in western places, I suspect because we used to overcook rice (dry) and love salt.
Nigirizushi absolutely uses shoyu as a dip. Though one should be mindful to pnly pour enough for what they're eating and only the fish should touch it.
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u/SethLight 1d ago edited 1d ago
Etiquette is kind of hilarious. People don't realize culturally it's fine to pick up Sushi with your hands. While it's 'rude' to take more than 2 bites of the sushi or to mix your wasabi and soy sauce together and turn it into a dip.
With that said I can't imagine many who work in a sushi restaurant actually care about that stuff.