Sushi is a very famous dish connected to Japanese customs. Sushi is a very famous traditional dish of the Japanese and there are several ways of making it.This is a very special dish of rice that comprises of a variety of short grained white rice. After being cooked, it is blended with salt, sugar and rice vinegar and sake is also added sometimes in it. In order to avoid rice getting too sticky to be handled, it is required to be seasoned at room temperature.Traditionally, a wooden tub which is round in shape named hangiri is used to mix everything with the help of a paddle made up of wood called shamoji. Topping is made up of raw fish due to its good quality of freshness as compared to cooked fish. A lot of professional sushi chefs prefer only high quality fish to be used for this dish. The color, firmness and smell of the fish to be used are required to be judged very carefully to make an exotic dish. Yellowtail, snapper, salmon, mackerel and tuna are the common and best types of fishes that are used for making sushi a perfect dish.