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Sushi vs Onigiri - What's the difference?

sushi | onigiri |

As nouns the difference between sushi and onigiri

is that sushi is a Japanese dish made of small portions of sticky white rice flavored with vinegar, usually wrapped in seaweed and filled or topped with fish, vegetables or meat while onigiri is a rice ball.

sushi

English

(wikipedia sushi)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A Japanese dish made of small portions of sticky white rice flavored with vinegar, usually wrapped in seaweed and filled or topped with fish, vegetables or meat.
    • For the vegetarians, she served cucumber sushi .
  • (proscribed) Raw fish, especially as a Japanese dish.
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    • Usage notes

    Though the primary ingredient of Japanese sushi is flavored rice, non-Japanese people often often assume that the defining component is raw fish, and occasionally use "sushi" to mean "raw fish". Raw slices of fish (or other meats) served without rice are properly called sashimi''.Celeste Heiter, ''The Sushi Book (2007), page 11

    See also

    * California roll * nigiri * sashimi * sushi roll * kimbap

    References

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    onigiri

    English

    (Onigiri)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A rice ball.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 28, author=, title=Island Within an Island, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The sprawling multipage menu offers cleanly executed dishes meant to accompany the sake, including standards like boiled edamame, and the filling rice balls called onigiri that you would expect at any izakaya, or Japanese pub. }}

    Synonyms

    * omusubi