No soy sauce on white rice?

''Japanese believe for no reason that has ever been explained to me, that japanese white rice is superior to all other white rice''

Actually, I think this is true too. And humans tend to believe that what is superior within the person's taste is superior to all people in the world. This is just like the French think that French wine is the best, even though a lot of people may prefer Chile wine over French. Any way for sure, Japanese rice is quite ''unique''.

I would say its like New York pizza is the best, but others argue Chicago Pizza is the best and I've seen some heated debates on this.

After eating Aamerican rice for 34 years and now eating Japanese rice for 2, my opinion is that Japanese rice is much better tasting. Having a good rice cooker helps too. We brought a new one back from Japan last month & makes much better rice than the old one we had.

As far as pizza, NE Pennsylvania, specifically the Scranton area, has the best pizza by far. Of course my sister is a pizza chef, so that sways my opinion.
I think over all what you grew up with and/or have the fondest memories of will be what you consider "best" of any type of food.

I think it's a bit rude and disrespectful. As for best pizza! New Yorks brick oven pizza is the best I ever tasted. It cooks at around 800-1000 degrees rather than 500 or so. :)

Does the soy sauce and rice etiquette apply to Nigiri as well? At the sushi bars here in the US we are provided with bowls to dip nigirisushi in soy sauce.

side note: A traditional US cuisine rule I break regards Grits. Grits is a cornmeal based porridge. It's a staple of breakfast in the US South. Traditionally you're supposed to add salt, pepper and butter. To the disdain of many a US southerner, I use sugar because I like the taste.

Does the soy sauce and rice etiquette apply to Nigiri as well?
You're really supposed to dip the sashimi on top of the nigiri sushi in the soy sauce and wasabi mixture and not the rice. It is bit difficult to do with chopsticks as it means that you need to turn the sushi, but remember, it is perfectly okay to eat sushi with your fingers.

Even though the "customer is god". I wish the local wait staff or the itamae would have educated me better :P

http://www.wikihow.com/Practice-Sushi-Etiquette

If the OP likes rice mixed up with other foodstuff why not eat Domburi and curry? both are very popular dishes in Japan, that are cheap and found everywhere. If he doesn't like to eat rice all the time why not eat Italian food, Udon dishes, Okonomiyake etc.??

First, please understand that soy sauce on white rice is not considered rude or blasphemerous or anything like that, it just looks too miserable. So miserable that decent restaurants could not afford it. As a matter of fact, we have alternatives. White rice and soy sauce *and* either of a raw chicken egg, dried bonito flakes (katsuobushi), farmented small beans (natto), or boiled small fish (shirasu). They are not considered first-class food but acceptable, and probably better than crude rice and soy sauce nutritionally.