【英语趣味课堂】吃寿司的方式-Sushi Ways

 Adrienne: So how do you eat the sushi? What's the best way to eat it?

 

Hiroshi: I usually use chopsticks but some people, they definitely prefer just using hands.

 

Adrienne: You can eat with your hands at the restaurant?

 

Hiroshi: The restaurant if it's more an upscale restaurant, that it has a little art deco that you feel that it is not like old school, but really upscale restaurant. I would recommend to use chopsticks but if it's an old school sushi restaurant and in downtown area, yeah, it's totally acceptable¹ to use your hands.

 

Adrienne: Interesting. OK, so I am eating maybe with chopsticks or with my hands. Is there anything I need to put on the sushi or eat with the sushi or do I just eat is straight?

 

Hiroshi: OK, I think the big question's always, how much wasabi.

 

Adrienne: Wasabi? What's wasabi?

 

Hiroshi: Wasabi is a horseradish. It's really hot. The green one you might have seen.

 

Adrienne: Oh, it looks like putty.

 

Hiroshi: Correct. And the real sushi restaurant, they actually either ask you or you basically let the sushi chef decide how much they are gonna put on the sushi, and you basically, you just use soy sauce as a dip and eat it, so if you really don't like to have anything spicy² you might want to tell the chef that I don't need wasabi in my sushi.

 

Adrienne: OK, I saw someone once at a sushi restaurant put wasabi in the soy sauce. Is that acceptable?

 

Hiroshi: That's acceptable but it depends on the restaurant. Some restaurants actually give you wasabi along with your sushi dish and you add the wasabi onto the soy sauce trey. That's totally fine. You can control the hotness, the spiciness³. Yeah, that's fine and also you can just go without wasabi and just enjoy the natural flavor of fish.

 

Adrienne: What happens if you eat too much wasabi?

 

Hiroshi: Basically, tears comes out.

 

Adrienne: You burn your brain.

 

Hiroshi: You burn your brain. Yeah.

1 acceptable   

adj.可接受的，合意的，受欢迎的

参考例句：

• The terms of the contract are acceptable to us.我们认为这个合同的条件可以接受。
• Air pollution in the city had reached four times the acceptable levels.这座城市的空气污染程度曾高达可接受标准的四倍。

2 spicy   

adj.加香料的；辛辣的，有风味的

参考例句：

• The soup tasted mildly spicy.汤尝起来略有点辣。
• Very spicy food doesn't suit her stomach.太辣的东西她吃了胃不舒服。

3 spiciness   

n.香馥，富于香料；香味

参考例句：

• For that extra spiciness, add powdered nutmeg to taste. 至于要得到那种额外的香味，酌量加入肉豆蔻粉。 来自互联网
• Aside from a graph a thermometer will be used to show spiciness. 除了文字标记以外，还将用温度表图像形象地表达辣度。 来自互联网