Take-out Chirashi

This was a take-out dinner from our favorite local sushi restaurant.

We found out the restaurant had Chirashi-sushi on their menu. Chirashi is a type of sushi dish, usually served in a bowl, and in the bowl, you find several kinds of Sashimi fish on a bed of vinegar-seasoned sushi rice. So, we expected to get something like that. However, the restaurant's definition of Chirashi was somehow different - rice and Sashimi fish were placed separately. Chirashi means "scattered" in Japanese, so, Chirashi-sushi should look like a dish with "scattered Sashimi fish over the rice." This one wasn't scattered. Well, Sashimi fish were fine although the sushi rice was dry. Also Furikake, a Japanese dried mixed seasoning flakes was on the sushi rice, which was very strange for me. I guess we should stick to usual rolled sushi when we go back to this restaurant.

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