See the 12 California Regions. For Tourism and Travel Purposes, the state is divided into 12 regions that conveniently represent geographic bounds of either counties or natural features such as deserts, mountains and bays.
Sushi is the most popular Japanese dish known worldwide. Sushi is mainly cooked rice with vinegar combined with other ingredients, usually raw fish or other seafood. Sushi is mainly made up of two parts, shari and neta. Shari is the cooked rice with vinegar, while neta refers to the various other ingredients.There are many types of sushi; nigiri-zushi (hand shaped sushi), oshi-zushi (pressed sushi), maki-zushi (rolled sushi) and chirashi-zushi (scattered sushi).Sushi, literally translated means sour tasting, this is mainly because of the vinegar rice and fermented fish, which was originally used to make sushi. Oshizushi â pressed sushi in the shape of a square. 2  Ingredients are topped with rice which is pressed together with the help of a wooden mold. 3  Makizushi â neta (fish and other ingredients) rolled in shari and nori (seaweed) with the help of a bamboo mat (makisu).
(soo-shee) A Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice combined. with other ingredients, seafood, vegetables and sometimes. tropical fruits. Ingredients and forms of sushi presentation vary. widely, but the ingredient which all sushi have in common is. vinegared rice.