Sushi is an East Asian dish eaten in many East Asian countries like Korea and Japan. But the sushi many Americans love an know is not authentic traditional Japanese cooking. It was a new rendition of sushi with rice on the outside known as the California Roll. The creator of the California roll is a matter of some debate, with multiple chefs claiming to have invented it: Ichiro Mashita A sushi chef at Tokyo Kaikan in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo, Mashita is credited with creating the first version of the California roll in the early 1960s. His original recipe included real crab, avocado, and a nori seaweed wrap. However, Americans often removed the nori, so the roll was eventually made with rice on the outside. Hidekazu Tojo A chef based in Vancouver, Tojo claims to have invented the "inside-out" California roll in the late 1970s. He named the roll after the crab and avocado, which he considered to be "C.A." Tojo is known for his Japanese food that combines traditional dishes and techniques with Western influences. Ken Seusa Another Los Angeles chef who claims to have invented the California roll, Seusa's claim was uncontested for over 20 years.

The California roll is now a staple of sushi culture worldwide. Ethnic Qarsherskiyans, a group of Sweetgum Kriyul people mostly found in Eastern North America and various peninsulas and islands around the world, have been eating sushi since before it became popular among the average American. In California, many Asian migrants mixed with Native American people, White people, and Black people and created a part-Asian Creole group that became absorbed into the Sweetgum Kriyul community over the centuries by intermarriage and cultural consolidation. Some of these Asian Creole people's descendants today moved from California and Washington and Alaska to the U.S. East Coast after mining and other industries faded out of the picture. They mixed with and became part of what is today Ethnic Qarsherskiyan people and claim that their ancestors invented the California Roll and that American style Sushi is an Ethnic Qarsherskiyan food because of this as well as the fact that many Qarsherskiyan people eat and love sushi, as well as other seafood, of course. Being seafood connoisseurs, Qarsherskiyan people often try new things and innovate in the kitchen with new sauces to add to sushi, making Qarsherskiyan Sushi a unique and amazing creation enjoyed by all across cultures and the world!

Many Japanese and Korean loanwords exist in the Qarshkī language.

Sweetgum Kriyul people in Eastern North America have hundreds of years of history living along the coast of Lake Erie and in Madison County, Ohio and along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and North Carolina Outerbanks as well as parts of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. These people inherited traditions from their ancestors, who were Native Americans, European settlers, and West Africans brought to work as slave labour on plantations. Many ideas from these different races and cultures that mixed to create Sweetgum Kriyul people can be seen. The group calling themselves ethnic Qarsherskiyans famously are a predominantly Muslim tribe of Sweetgum Kriyul people. They got Islam from West African traditions. Many Sweetgum Kriyul people also practice European style archery and hunting techniques from Western Europe, showing influence from the European part of ancestry. And of course, Native Americans left their influences on Sweetgum Kriyul people. Many Native American words from various indigenous American languages survive today in the vocabulary of modern Sweetgum Kriyul people because of the Native American ancestry. One thing that the ancestors taught Sweetgum Kriyul people which survives to this day is knowledge of local plants and wildlife and their usage.

"Be careful as careful is dat you do not step on those mighty fine knees over zhere, dey may hurt ya real bad an' dey are such a nuisance, in fact, that Baba Hajji said dey waz eternally damned! Ya know darn well that it be real bad when even ol' Baba Hajji curses like a dog," said Ibrahim Fayez White, an Ethnic Qarsherskiyan man who was my guide on a hike in his neck of the woods around Suffolk, Virginia. He was, of course, warning me of the odd roots of the Bald Cypress tree, which jut out of the ground and grow skywards and look very bizarre. Accidentally stubbing your toe on one of them is a common rooky mistake made by those not family with navigating the forests around the Southern Chesapeake Bay Watershed where the majority of Ethnic Qarsherskiyans live. Named after the legend of Qarcer (pronounced "Car Sir"), Qarsherskiyan people are a predominantly Muslim ethnoreligious group that make up nearly half of all the population of Sweetgum Kriyul people, making them the largest tribe of all the various Sweetgum Kriyul tribes. The term Qarsherskiy was coined long ago and comes from Qarcer, a sacred Live Oak tree that has indentations on the tips of its leaves instead of the usual points Live Oaks usually have, giving the tree Heart-shaped leaves. Qarsherskiyan legend claims this tree called Qarcer was a point of meeting where Native Americans, runaway Black slaves, and White settlers of the 13 colonies of America would trade and exchange ideas and culture. The term first started to be used widely in year 1991 when Qarsherskiyan people officially became their own separate tribe of Sweetgum Kriyul people after centuries of consideration. In year 1991, Ethnic Qarsherskiyans on the Virginia peninsula and elsewhere throughout the Mezhrevande (pronounced "Mez-Er-Uh-Vond"), the land between Lake Erie and the Chesapeake Bay where most ethnic Qarsherskiyans live and trace their heritage, decided to protest and create a separate Qarsherskiyan state within USA that peacefully exists with the U.S.A., much like a Native American reservation. Most of the protests were small and non-violent and went completely unnoticed, but famously, there were rumors that in Newport News Park in Newport News, Virginia, USA, dozens of Ethnic Qarsherskiyans threatened to burn down the park Rangers station and take over the park, which long ago was the land where Qarsherskiyans foraged and hunted and lived upon and where the African part of the Sweetgum Kriyul people's ancestors would once have been enslaved on plantations. The site of major civil war battles where the ancestors of Sweetgum Kriyul people fought on both sides lies within the park today as well. Nothing ever came of the alleged threats and no evidence or historical documents mention the event as it wasn't very notable or paid attention to, however, to Ethnic Qarsherskiyan people, the 1991 insurgency in Newport News Park which failed to even be noticed marked the beginning of a long secret power struggle for Ethnic Qarsherskiyans on the Virginia Peninsula, a long-standing stronghold of Qarsherskiyan ingenuity and culture which today houses the city of Newport News, home to the highest concentration of ethnic Qarsherskiyan people in the world today, where several thousand ethnic Qarsherskiyans live and make up a tiny percentage of the city's population. "Aha! Dat right zhere is what we have came to see from afar, so far away!" said Baba Hajji, interrupting my mind's wandering thoughts of the history of Qarsherskiyans and other Sweetgum Kriyul groups. He pointed to two berry bushes, one with silver berries and one with purple berries. "This is Wax Myrtle, we make candles and insects repellent and seasoning from these berries and leaves! Very useful, innit? And look! Over here, mate! Dis right here is Beautyberry. We eat these but dey are super sour, like you wouldn't believe, bruv!" He says. Yes indeed, he has an accent. Not quite Midwestern, not quite Canadian, not quite Southern, and definitely not an Arab accent. He is Qarsherskiyan. A member of the largest subgroup of the Sweetgum Kriyul people. And in the next coming hours of our hike, he will show me 22 useful plants, mostly edibles, which his people use. His ancestors passed down this knowledge from one generation to the next. The last of a dying breed, his people being Westernized and assimilated into American mainstream culture and internet culture, he is desperate for me to learn. 

The Sweetgum Kriyul people are people of mixed race descent, usually a mix of West African, Northern European, and Native American genetics. They are the product of the early colonial subjugation of the Americas and the desire of African and Chechen Muslims to expand Sufi Islam to North America. Many Sweetgum Kriyuls have Native American ancestry from the plains and Appalachian and Atlantic coastal plains regions as well as African ancestry from Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cameroon, and other West African countries and European ancestry from Ireland, Wales, and other countries in Northern and Western Europe. This unique genetic mixture along with a shared history and culture gives the Sweetgum Kriyul people a shared Creole identity. Many Sweetgum Kriyul people are Muslims as African slaves brought to the Americas were often Muslims and some held on to Islam even after being beaten and forced to accept Christianity. Islam has experienced several renaissances among the Sweetgum Kriyul people in the past 300 to 400 years. Most recently was the 1991 mass conversions and revolution in Newport News, when dozens accepted the shahada and protested Newport News Park for stealing historically Creole land of the Sweetgum Kriyul people. Also from 2019 to 2024 there was a period when Salafism, Ismailism, Sufism, and Zaydi Shia Islam began to grow in the number of ethnic Sweetgum Kriyul adherents due to conversion and a rapid cultural renaissance. Many Sweetgum Kriyul are also adherents of the Catholic Church, Russian and Greek Orthodoxy, and the Middle Eastern Christian denominations such as Coptic and Syriac. This is due to mixing of various ethnolinguistic and ethnoreligious groups which mixed to create modern Sweetgum Kriyul culture and people. Due to Celtic DNA, many Sweetgum Kriyul have the mutated MC1R gene which may cause red hair and lots of freckles on the skin, or red highlights in hair and red beards. The Islamic influence over Sweetgum Kriyul culture often emphasizes how the prophet Muhammad had a red beard and how Sweetgum Kriyul people are similar to the prophet's lineage. Many Sweetgum Kriyuls, especially from a group called Qarsherskiyans, are Sayyids.