Wasabi is a highly valued plant in Japanese cuisine, used primarily as a condiment for seafood dishes. Used as an ingredient in dressings, dips, sauces and marinades. Wasabi is a versatile spice and is rapidly becoming one of the most popular new flavors. Wasabi has a heat component that unlike chili peppers, is not long lived on the palate and subsides into an extremely pleasant, mild vegetable taste.