A Sushi Making Afternoon

Food blog from YY again! Just goes to show how free she is.

But let the story begin... It all started from Ix, trapped in Taiwan (typhoon!!! typhoon!!!), who finally got evacuated by Hello Kiddy EVA air. He watsapped us to say "the flight was too happy".

I said "wat?! Hello Kiddy?" This sounds so wrong. (obviously I am not a fan of that rat... oh I meant cat, got a bit confused with mini mouse)
Show me a photo, I texted but that bugger said it was very beneath his image to do that. Please!!!

So I had to google... Then I was dumbstruck.... WAHHHH.....

You know exactly what the typical singaporean will do... Kapo the cushions home man! If handcarry is big enough, ask for the blankets as well! Mai tu liao!!!

Incredible. Lx said the food tasted great. Fred said the air stewardess doesn't even need to clear the plates after meals. Passengers will just finish the food, fold the box and down the whole thing into that same handcarry.

Anyway I digressed. This blog is about my first attempt at sushi making... Not that I am trying because Kenneth likes to eat sushi, sashimi maybe but all these kiddy bentos were getting me very inspired and motivated to make some myself. Between form and substance, I am pretty confident of the former. I just need to confirm my suspicion. Then I found this.

OMG .... cute 到！

So the gals were gathered and Xianger even brought a sushi roll machine. Can make cat, bear, flower, grapes, and heart shape sushi. Our sushi photos are going to look awesome.

Sadly this toy kit meant for kids was way too complicated. Nope, if you are entertaining the thought that women cannot assemble parts to save their lives, you are wrong! Blame it on the manual (in Japanese and very possibility badly translated English). Its was total flop. 

Alright, forget about the machine. Lets concentrate on things that work - our very first egg tamago. Damn, all the youtube videos feature cooking tamago with a rectangular tin pan and I don't own a rectangular tin pan! I only have a Happy Call pan and it is huge. But no one says tamago cannot be BIG. 

Looking good yah? So proud. Pat on my back. 

Check out how the bottom actually looks like... Hohohoho.

Tried to roll the rice ball for the tamago sushi. Disaster! The rice stuck to my fingers and palms as I tried to squeeze the rice balls into shape. Can't shake them off, can't wipe them off. So I ate them off my fingers. This method removed most of the rice. Now back to squeezing the balls... Fine, even I felt way too disgusting and unhygienic to eat the end product. However to note, I wrote "ate the rice off my fingers" not "lick the rice off my fingers". Precision contact between teeth and grain, not teeth and fingers. Ok maybe not that precise but I tried. 

More youtube videos. More rice on my laptop keyboard. More rice on my phone (where did you think these photos came from?!) More sushi in progress. Yes Ally, by now, you must be screaming "OH MY GOD! WHAT DID I EAT??!!!". Yes, the moment your "on the way" message was received, we scrambled to clear up everything that gave hint to this progress.

Eyes and smiles were immediately punctured from the new Diaso puncher. Sushi rolls arranged neatly in trays. 

Admit it, they look quite pro right?

What we learned from our first lesson on sushi making:

1 - Sushi is not as healthy as we think. A lot of sugar, salt and vinegar goes into the rice.
2 - Hold your puncher down because the eyes and mouths tend to fly and they are too tiny to locate. (I am not suggesting that we salvage any from the floor, do not let your imagination go wild)
3 - It is hard to cut sushi into equal sizes. And they get stuck to the knife.
4 - Always use seaweed to wrap the rice. Unless you are Jiro.
5 - 2 cups of short grain rice makes this amount of sushi. One cannot ignore the wastage of a few damaged products plus rice on our hands, bamboo rolls, table etc. I shall not elaborate...

Anyway it was a great afternoon. One which we downed sushi with ice cold Kirin beer. So my dear friends, I promise I will practice hard on my sushi adventure so wait for my sushi lunch invite!! COMING SOON...