A sushi chef shows you how to make sushi in three videos: how to cut sushi toppings in part 1, how to shape sushi in part 2 and sushi shapes in part 3. In this lecture, Japanese is spoken with subtitles such as English. We hope that you will learn the basics of how to make sushi through this course and serve sushi at home to your friends and family.
■Contents（1st video）
0:00 How to make sushi
0:12 Why water with vinegar is needed
1:02 Are women not suited to be sushi chefs?
1:36 Structure of this video
1:59 Differences between 'hanmi,' 'fushi,' 'saku' and 'maru'
3:06 ★How to cut sushi toppings
3:40 Where to start cutting
4:22 Basic cutting technique
4:53 Cutting technique to give a sharp edge
6:36 ★Length and width of sushi toppings
6:40 How long should sushi toppings be?
7:16 How does different width of sushi toppings make sushi look?
8:58 What is the right length and width for sushi toppings?
9:51 ★How sushi look different with different length and width of sushi toppings
10:53 Preview of the next video
■Contents（2nd video）
0:00 How to shape sushi
0:12 ★Basics of shaping sushi
1:40 How to make a hole in sushi rice and why you need to do it
2:15 Differences between kote-gaeshi, honte-gaeshi and tate-gaeshi
3:13 How to become a sushi chef
3:41 ★Kote-gaeshi shaping technique
6:43 ★Honte-gaeshi shaping technique
9:44 ★Tate-gaeshi shaping technique
10:51 How is tate-gaeshi different from kote-gaeshi?
11:53 When should you use tate-gaeshi?
12:10 How to decide which technique you should use & summary
13:31 Preview of the next video
■Contents（3rd video）
0:00 How to make sushi (sushi shapes)
0:12 How to cut sushi toppings & how to shape sushi
0:38 Why sushi is often served in 2 pieces
1:03 Origin of Edomae (Tokyo) sushi
2:03 Size of 1 kan (piece) of sushi in Edo period
2:50 1 kan or 2 kan in current sushi restaurants?
3:40 ★2 different shapes of sushi
4:28 What's the difference between the 2 shapes?
4:56 Ship bottom shape
5:16 Rice bag shape
5:34 Comparing ship bottom shape & rice bag shape
6:12 ★How to make ship bottom shape & rice bag shape
7:11 Summary of trilogy of how to make sushi
