After you sanatized your hands, it's time to eat sushi and learn the custom. A small dish is used to pour soy sauce into for dipping. If you don't want wasabi with all of your sushi, just put it on top of the sushi before you eat it instead of mixing it with your soy sauce. And remember that its flavor should complement the sushi; not cover it up. It is not necessary to mix a thick paste of wasabi. Most sushi maki rolls already have wasabi added by the chef, so you may want to taste your sushi first before adding wasabi to your dipping soy sauce. If you don't like wasabi at all, remember to tell the sushi chef, as certain types of sushi are often made with wasabi on the inside. Small pink slices of Gari (pickled ginger) are eaten between different types of sushi in order to cleanse the pallet.

When eating nigiri sushi or sashimi, hold the sushi with fingers or chopsticks, dipping (not soaking) the fish into the soy sauce. The picture on your left shows that dipping the sushi upside down with the fish on the bottom. Avoid dipping the rice into the soy sauce, as rice will absorb the liquid and lose it's flavor. Place the sushi fish side down in your mouth, making sure you taste the fish first, followed by the wasabi and rice. Maki roll sushi is traditionally eaten in one bite. The rice in the roll tends to fall apart if eaten in more than one bite.