Ingredients: Rice, seaweed, smoked salmon, cucumber, avocado, cream cheese (optional), wasabi paste (optional)

Preparation: Standard

Popularity: Moderate to low

Depending on where you are, the recipe for a smoked salmon roll will vary. Most sushi houses will put smoked salmon together with cream cheese, to make a dish that’s almost a bagel in nature.

But the more exotic sushi establishments will sometimes add wasabi paste to the mix – a hotter, but altogether incredible food experience, as the bite of the wasabi mixes well with the tang of the salmon. 

Variations on this theme sometimes include smoked salmon wrapped around the outside of the roll, while others still go with the inside-out preparation method, of rice on the outside, seaweed inside that, and the rest of the dish in the center. 

Not a classic Japanese favorite by any stretch, but I’ll have six to go!