On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 10:10:01 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 11:53:29 AM UTC-4, wrote:
> > I saw the FiOS Long Island News Channel "Restaurant Hunter" show episode for Tues, August 23, 2016. Amanda Price and Rob Petrone were reporting at "H2O Seafood and Sushi" at 215 W Main St, Smithtown, NY. I always thought that sushi with any kind of rice was always finger food and never to be eaten with chopsticks?
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> Either way is acceptable. Frankly, many types of Americanized sushi
> are so messy, I wouldn't want to use my fingers.
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> Cindy Hamilton

It's fairly obvious if a piece of sushi should be approached by the fingers or hashi. Mostly, I use hashi because I'm a neat and clean kind of guy. What I won't do is shove a whole god-damned piece in my mouth like the Japanese insist on doing. Such savagery! However, on the rare occasion that a sushi is so structurally unsound or precariously constructed as to make biting in half a losing proposition, I will plug it into my gaping maul straightaways. It is not a very pleasant experience, let me tell you!