Restaurants worldwide typically offer six forms of sushi.

They are:

• Nigiri–molded vinegared rice, topped with a raw slice of fish;
• Sashimi (meaning pierced or cut)–sliced raw fish, meat, or seafood;
• Chirashi (meaning scattered)–sashimi with various ingredients, served over vinegared rice;
• Maki–bite-sized rolls of rice wrapped in nori, with fish, meat, or vegetable filling;
• Temaki–filling of vinegared rice with vegetables and meat, fish, or seafood, wrapped in cone-shaped nori;
• Uramaki–a variation of nigiri, with the rice outside, and the filling wrapped in nori inside the sushi roll.