Caterpillar Roll

Eel and cucumber inside, overlapping avocado 'segments' on top to look like a caterpillar, finished with eel sauce. A close cousin of the dragon roll — and cooked.

Style: specialty
Typical ingredients: unagi (eel), cucumber, avocado (on top), tobiko, eel sauce, rice, nori
Calories: ~350 per 8-piece roll (varies by shop)
Raw fish?: No — no raw fish
Vegetarian: No
Origin: American sushi bars

A roll that looks like a bug (nicely)

The caterpillar roll wraps eel and cucumber, then lays overlapping thin avocado slices across the top so the surface looks like a segmented caterpillar — sometimes with dots of tobiko or ikura for “eyes.” Sweet eel sauce ties it together.

Cooked and friendly

Like the dragon roll it’s modeled on, the eel is cooked, so there’s no raw fish — rich, sweet and approachable. Calories land around 350 per roll, driven by the eel, avocado and sauce.

Neta inside

鰻 unagi

Unagi

Unagi is freshwater eel — always served cooked and lacquered with sweet kabayaki tare. Rich, tender, beloved — and, as an endangered species, ethically loaded.

Related rolls

Dragon Roll

A showpiece: eel and cucumber inside, fanned avocado 'scales' on top, sweet eel sauce over. Lots of drama, and — despite the looks — no raw fish.

Tiger Roll

Shrimp tempura inside, cooked shrimp lined up on top like tiger stripes, eel sauce over. A shrimp-lover's take on the dragon roll — fully cooked.