When you come to our Bothell Japanese restaurant, you’ll find your sushi served up on color-coded dishes. In a conveyer belt restaurant like this, these plates serve to indicate the price of your food. However, even in sushi restaurants where sushi is ordered up from the kitchen, you may find that the sushi plates are quite important. In fact, the plates that sushi is served on have become an art form throughout Japan.
A sushi plate is a serving dish that has been specially designed for the presentation of sushi. Presentation is highly important to a chef in Japan, so a good dish should look good, feel good to the touch, and make the food look all the better at the same time. The object with the appearance of a sushi plate is to complement the appearance of the food, without drawing attention away from it. Most sushi plates are even made to be seasonally appropriate, decorated with artwork that reflects the time of year. This is all part of the traditional Japanese sensibility for aesthetic that is so present in Japanese dining.