The spread of sushi outside Japan started after World War II as Japanese immigrants took it to other parts of the world.

Japanese food has skyrocketed in popularity over the past few years, bringing terms like sushi, maki, and nigiri into our ...

Savor sushi in two delightful forms – nigiri, with fresh fish on a small bed of rice, and maki, where rice, fish, and veggies are rolled in seaweed. Each bite, a tasty mix of flavors and textures.

Then not much soy sauce. So these are the three ways: sashimi, nigiri, and roll. Nigiri sushi. Make half-turn, take the chopstick and put soy sauce on the fish side. You can see no rice.

The pop-up is an offshoot of yet another of the chef’s restaurants, Itani Sushi, which debuted in North Berkeley last fall.