Wasabi and Pickled Ginger While some diners like to add wasabi to their dish of soy sauce, that's not encouraged in Japan. Each piece of sushi often has a tiny dab of wasabi already on it, added by the sushi chef. If you want to add some extra heat, put a bit of wasabi on the fish directly with your chopsticks.

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Sushi chefs discourage the mixing as creating the concoction taints the soy sauce and ruins both the spiciness and aroma of wasabi. The proper way to enjoy sushi is to apply wasabi onto the fish element of sushi and dip pieces of sushi fish side down into soy sauce to not over-saturate the morsel.