Japanese food restaurants in Vermont (VT)

If you can get your hands on some fresh wasabi (and you'll probably have to go online to do so), you should prepare it by grating it with a metal grater. You can mix in a little water to form it into a paste, as necessary. The finished product should be light green.

Don't forget the sushi-ku! One of the required elements of successful sushi, a signature part of Japanese food, is sushi vinegar -- sushi-ku. To make it yourself, mix rice vinegar, salt, and sugar in a pan, then cook it on low heat until the sugar dissolves. After it cools, mix it into your sushi rice.

Traditional sushi rice is medium-grained, white rice that sticks together when it cooks. American long-grain rice tends to be inappropriate for this Japanese food dish, since it's been engineered, over the decades, to be drier than medium-grain rice, and not to stick together.