I like to eat gari and it taste really good with sushi. My habit is to eat 1 piece of it between sushis and it taste pretty good in that way. Actually when you are served a plate of nigiri sushi, ginger is always served (usually wasabi might not be served in real japanese restaurant, because it is already added to the sushi). The ginger(gari) is more than a decoration itself, it serves as a tool of dipping soy sauce! (that is somethine a lot of people don’t know, including me in the past). You are suppose to dip the soy sauce with the ginger and apply it to the top of the nigiri sushi before eating the sushi. It is the “proper” way of eating the sushi and I think it make sense because 1. you wouldn’t contaminate the soy sauce with the fish , 2. you won’t mix different flavors of fishes together, and 3. you add in the flavor of ginger into the fish. Hmmm, that is a good way of serving food.

This is the only good clip I saw on teaching how to do pickled ginger.

Homemade Pickled Ginger: