my favorite food is sushi.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Sushi can be prepared with either brown or white rice. It is often prepared with raw seafood, but some varieties of sushi use cooked ingredients, and many others are vegetarian. Sushi is often served with pickled ginger, wasabi, and soy sauce. Daikon radish is popular as a garnish. Sushi is often confused with sashimi, a related Japanese dish consisting of thinly sliced raw fish or occasionally meat, and an optional serving of rice. Sushi originates in a Southeast Asian dish, known today as \"narezushi\" ( \u2013 \"salted fish\"), stored in fermented rice for possibly months at a time. The lacto-fermentation of the rice prevented the fish from spoiling; the rice would be discarded before consumption of the fish. This early type of sushi became an important source of protein for its Japanese consumers. The term \"sushi\" comes from an antiquated grammatical form no longer used in other contexts, and literally means \"sour-tasting\"; the overall dish has a sour and umami or savoury taste. Narezushi still exists as a regional specialty, notably as \"funa-zushi\" from Shiga Prefecture. Vinegar began to be added to the preparation of narezushi in the Muromachi period (1336\u20131573) for the sake of enhancing both taste and preservation.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I love sushi!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, sushi can be prepared with brown or white rice. It can also be raw or cooked!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'll eat it all, sashmi, rolls, sushi!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Do you ever make your own sushi? If you do I highly suggest using a rice cooker machine. Makes great sushi rice."}, {"role": "user", "content": "No, but I lived in Japan for 6 years so I have had homemade sushi a lot of times!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well what a great way to try real sushi! Sushi today is different than from the time it originated in Japan when it used to be made with fermented rice. Now they use vinegar instead!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have had it both ways. I once visited a traditional Japanese village that made it the traditional way and it came with a shot of sake. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Sake is interesting isn't it? A wine made out of rice! I am guessing when they mess it up that it just become rice vinegar, which is also important in Japanese food."}]