Characteristics

In a sushi bar, you will be given a small heap of pickled ginger as well as a small glob of wasabi. The purpose of the wasabi is to mix with soy sauce in the small dish that included with your place setting.
The ginger is used to cleanse the palate between bites of sushi.
It does not take a lot of the ginger to cleanse the palate, so the small pile should be enough for several rolls.
If you consume all of either, by all means ask the sushi chef for more.
People have asked if the ginger root in grocery stores is the same ginger that is pickled for sushi.

Called gari or sushoga in Japanese, pickled ginger is an obligatory accompaniment to sushi. We will be covering sushi later.
A Little Thai pepper gives this a pleasing kick. The pickled ginger can be stored, refrigerated, for about one month.

Product of China and quality controlled by LNS Service.