Sushi Newbies, Here Are the Best Kinds You Need to Try Now

6. Philadelphia Roll

Consists of either raw or smoked salmon, cream cheese, cucumber, avocado and onion.

7. Rainbow Roll

A Rainbow Roll is a California Roll with six or seven types of sashimi: yellow tail, tuna, salmon, snapper, white fish, eel, and so on. Avocado is wrapped around the fish.

8. Seattle Roll

Cucumber, avocado and raw and smoked salmon.

9. Spider Roll

Includes fried soft-shell crab and fillings like cucumber, sprouts or lettuce, roe, avocado and sometimes spicy mayonnaise.

10. Tampa Roll

Made with fried grouper, onion and mayonnaise

The most valued sushi ingredient is toro, the fatty cut of the fish. Most traditional sushi will be completely raw, and the most widely-used fish include tuna, yellowtail, snapper, mackerel, and salmon. Kani kama (imitation crab) is commonly substituted for real crab, most notably in the wildly popular California Roll.

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