Toro Sushi menu

Aburage

Fried tofu pouches prepared by cooking in sweet cooking sake, soy sauce, and water

Aemono

Vegetables or meats mixed with a dressing or sauce

Agari

A japanese sushi bar term for green tea

Agemono

Fried foods either deep fat fried or pan fried

Aji

Spanish mackerel, horse mackerel

Aji No Moto

Monosodium glutamate msg

Aji No Tataki

Fresh spanish mackerel

Akagai

Red clam or ark shell

Akami

Lean tuna, cut from the back of the fish. see also maguro

Ama Ebi

Sweet shrimp, usually served raw

Ana Kyu Maki

Conger eel and cucumber rolls

Anago

Conger eel saltwater. see also unagi

Ankimo

Monkfish liver

Anko Nabe

Monkfish stew

Aoyagi

Yellow round clam

Awabi

Abalone

Ayu

Sweetfish

Basashi

Horse sashimi

Battera - Zushi

Oshi zushi topped with mackerel

Beni Shoga

Red pickled ginger

Biiru

Bonito

English word for the japanese katsuo

California Roll

Crab meat or fake crab meat sticks, smelt or flying fish roe, avocado

Chakin - Zushi

Vinegared rice wrapped in a thin egg crepe

Chikuwa

Browned fish cake with a hole running through its length

Chirashi - Zushi

Bed of sushi rice with other ingredients mixed on top

Chirashi Sushi

Bed of sushi rice with other ingredients mixed on top

Chutoro

Medium fatty tuna, from the upper belly. see also toro and otoro

Chutoro - Maki

Marbled-tuna roll

Daikon

Giant, long white radish, sweeter than round, red radishes.

Dashi

Basic soup and cooking stock made with kombu and katsuoboshi

Doburoku

A thick, soupy sake

Donburi

A large bowl for noodle and rice dishes

Ebi

Boiled shrimp. see also ama ebi

Edomae - Zushi

Same as nigiri-zushi

Engawa

The muscle that controls the fin on halibut or the meat surrounding the muscle in a scallop

Fugu

Blowfish toxic if improperly prepared

Fugu-chiri

Cooked, sliced raw fugu meat in a stewpan.blowfish soup

Fuki

A fibrous vegetable often simmered in broth

Fukusa Sushi

A type of sushi which is wrapped in a crepe

Funamori

Boat wrap, an alternate name for kakomi sushi

Futo - Maki

A fat roll filled with rice, sweetened cooked egg, pickled gourd, and bits of vegetables

Futomaki

Large roll

Gari

A sushi-bar term for pickled ginger

Geoduck

Mirugai, is the american pacific northwest

Geta

The wooden block used at a sushi bar as a plate for gari, wasabi and smaller pieces of sushi

Gobo

Long, slender burdock root

Gohan

Plain boiled rice

Goma

Sesame seeds

Gomoku Sushi

Alternate name for chirashi-sushi

Gunkan Maki

Battleship roll, an alternate name for kakomi sushi

Gyoza

Pan-fried and, or sauteed and/or steamed, stuffed wonton or other wrappers, akin to potstickers

Gyu Tataki

Beef tataki

Hamachi

Young yellowtail