Sushi, made by a Japanese

 Austinites love sushi.


When I lived in East Lansing, Michigan, the only way for me to get to sushi was to find a restaurant with a panda on its sign.  They used to line up fake sushi next to some fried dumplings and fortune cookies on its buffet table. yeah.


But here in Austin, there are so many sushi restaurants.   They are good and stylish, and their "sushi" are 'Asian fusion creative meals inspired by sushi'.   I don't know why fried things are rolled with rice.  I don't know why they put mayonnaise in every roll.  But hey, I enjoy them too!


A side note..... Sake-bomb.   what? Never heard of a drink like that in Japan either..... I can see how they came up with this name. "Sake? from Japan? Truman? Bomb? ohhhhh, Sake bomb! "

Authentic sushi is hard to get, even in this cultured city Austin.  That's why I decided to make sushi for our dinner with my close friends last night. 


The first time I made sushi was ..... believe it or not, in Austin.  A blue-eyed, blonde, white boy taught me how to make sushi. Surprise!
But now I've gotten a hang of it, and I have been pretty good at it.


I went to select fish at DK grocery and cooked all from scratch . (I will post how to make them some other time.)

I made many rolls (Maki-mono) , Nigiri (Simply a piece of fish on sushi rice - nigiri is a lot more common than rolls in Japan.) , Kinpira-gobo , Dashimaki-tamago (rolled eggs.  Yes, we roll everything.), and Inari-zushi (wiki: Inarizushi (稲荷寿司) is a pouch of fried tofu filled with usually just sushi rice.) 


My friends really liked Inari-zushi.  I haven't seen any sushi restaurants selling Inari-zushi in Austin yet. Maybe I should start a business lol.  

Inari-zushi

Thank you my friends for such a fun night.