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Eat your sushi immediately when you get it With fresh French fries, you have only a few minutes to eat them until they're soggy and gross. Same with sushi. It's supposed to be cold fish and warm rice. Eat it when it's served. Otherwise it's just dying on your plate. A word about chopsticks You don't need them as much as you think you do. Sushi was originally made to eat with your hands. The only time you need chopsticks is for sashimi. Everything else, you can eat with your hands. Even nigiri, which is a piece of fish served on a small pod of rice. Cheap sushi is an oxymoron Half-price appetizer sushi …cheap sushi … that's a bad idea. Sushi should not be used to save money. It means you're eating bad fish. Period. Skip the Spicy Tuna Roll The two most popular sushi rolls in America are: the California roll and the Spicy Tuna roll. California because it's delicious. It's the perfect combination of cucumber for texture, avocado for creaminess and a little fat, and crab for sweetness. California rolls are great. On the other hand, spicy tuna rolls come from sushi chefs in America trying to get rid of their older tuna with spicy mayonnaise. I would eat 1,001 things at a sushi bar other than a spicy tuna roll. Respect your sushi chefs The good ones really know what they're doing. If you have a chance to eat sushi, always do it at the sushi bar. Every sushi chef has a stash that they want to share. Just trust they're going to give you something good. Bigger is not better Sushi is supposed to be bite-sized, and the rice is supposed to fall apart in your mouth. It's a delicacy. It's supposed to be small, simple, and clean, not overloaded with rice and a bunch of other crap. Don't be high maintenance It's okay to ask for the occasional substitution. But when it comes to taste, the customer is not always right. Some substitutions are simple and that's fine, like a California roll with no crab. That's fine. But if you come to Uchi and ask for Hamachi belly, cut extra thin, with no skin, on small rice balls, with a slice of lemon on top, and spicy sauce on the side, the answer will be, "No." Sushi rice It's supposed to be warm and it's supposed to be soft. It's not supposed to be sticky, hard, or crunchy. Sushi has everything to do with the rice, not the fish. You read food blogs that don't know what they're talking about, saying they had sushi fall apart on them (probably because they soaked it in soy sauce), and that the rice was too soft. Would you rather the rice be super sticky so it can absorb a lake of soy sauce and still maintain some structure? Gross. That's not how it's supposed to be.