So easy to make a sushi roll!

Philippines
February 22, 2013 6:30am CST
I had a guest last week. She is Japanese. Because we were both Asians in Europe, the first thing we did was cook some Asian food. I prepared stir fried noodles with vegetables, chicken and shrimp while she prepared of course sushi rolls. It took me more than two hours coz I had to marinate the meat so that it would become tasty on its own while she did everything in just an hour. She rolled it with her delicate fingers but very quickly. She put avocado and salmon as the filling. We then invited two more Japanese friends to join us for dinner! Next time I'll prepare sushi too.My European friends love everything that I cook but I am tired preparing our own traditional food that takes hours to make. I'll take a break by doing this newly taught dish.:)
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@marguicha (223008)
• Chile
22 Feb 13
I love sushi and I learned how to make sushi rolls some years ago. Lasy year I bought fish, avocadoes and other ingredients and tsught my grandson to make them. We had fun and ate them all.
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@Raine38 (12250)
• United States
22 Feb 13
I like sushi rolls, unfortunately, I am not really good in making it. I do know how to make my own version of rice balls and that's it. I need to learn more about flavors and the different combination of meager spices so as not to overpower the natural taste of the fresh ingredients.
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@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
22 Feb 13
One of my MOST favourite foods in the entire cultural food world that I have indulged in...SUSHI rolls! And one of the International foods that I have never attempted, as watching those that make them, they are so..so deft, and fast. When you have your first success...I would like a tutorial..LOL!
• Philippines
22 Feb 13
Sure pergammano. It is so easy...I mean by just looking at it. I will try it next weekend. I will tell you how it went!:)
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• Canada
22 Feb 13
My apologies, "taiwanlife"...I DO enjoy your cuisine VERY much, as well...but I always feel like I have had a healthy meal, when I have sushi! I have a Canadian friend (caucasian..whom grew up in Japan)and she was very good a making traditional Japanese food..so I fell in love with it at an early age! My son, whom has travelled to China, a couple of times..tells me that the food that we get in the West, is really a commercialized form of their traditional foods..and not eaten as a daily consumptive. It's just what appeases us..GOOD marketing, on their behalf! I do NOT believe I have tried traditional Taiwanese foods! I live on a small Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and fresh seafood and shellfish..is just a catch away! Other than a rolling mat..Bamboo..is there any other special equipment needed! Thank you...and I hope you are enjoying myLot!
• Philippines
24 Feb 13
Hey, no worries. I am not from Taiwan. I just worked there for two years and loved the food and people there. Taiwanese food is very similar to Chinese food. They eat noodles, dumplings and rice. Soups are very good especially the spicy one. For a vegetarian to live in Taiwan is also a paradise. There are vegetarian restaurants and vegetarian stores in different parts of the country. Yes, in every city, one could find these restaurants and groceries. It is amazing. My first housemate was a Buddhist and didn't eat meat. I didn't feel starved or depressed at all because she cooks vegan food like how a meat dish is done. With the abundance of meat substitute which is tofu or soya then it is possible to do this.:) Seafood from my country is also always fresh. Where I am now in Europe is not so cheap to have them on the table. Not only that, I feel that they are not so fresh as I so used to having really fresh ones back home. Literally seeing them caught from the sea.
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@dainy1313 (2370)
• Leon, Mexico
23 Feb 13
Sushi - I learnt to make sushi a decade ago, kids love to cook them and eat them!
Hello Taiwanlife, I´m so pleased to read you. I hope that you are fine. My kids love sushi a lot, they really love them. But at Mexico sushi may be very expensive. So I learnt to make them a decade ago. When I make sushi kids love to help me and they enjoy a lot eating them. It´s very easy and cheap to make them. If we buy sushi we just buy 4 or 5 pieces for each of us, but if we make sushi children can have 10 if they want, and we always have left overs for snacks or dinner. I imagine how lovely must have been to have dinner with some japanese friends. You must feel very comfortable with asian mates at europe. Good luck. Blessings Taiwanlife... dainy
• Philippines
24 Feb 13
Thanks dainy1313! It is the same thing with dumplings. If I buy it in an Asian restaurant then I would only take 6 pieces for how much. But because I also know how to make it then I could have my friends doing a dumpling party at my flat. We could eat as much as we want. Everyone makes his or her own dumpling or spring roll. I would teach them how to do the right way but we end up just making our own designs. Some are so impatient that it just looks like an envelope ready to be mailed in the post office!:)
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• India
23 Feb 13
lucky your friends, your food sands very tasty, wish I could have a bite of that as I am so much hungry right now.
@blackrusty (3519)
• Mexico
22 Feb 13
well i am not a fan of Sushi but i think it was lovely that the 2 of you could share your foods and make them together that is the best kind of bonding
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@yogeshdhusa (2236)
• India
23 Feb 13
Its fun to cook food with friends!! I am not big fan of sushi i like fired fish (king fish) its tasty!! whenever we have a night out with friends, our menu is fixed,, chicken and rice, and a surprise dish by one of us! and lot of funny movies !! happy mylotting!!
@natliegleb (5175)
• India
23 Feb 13
Ya sure it is quite easy and the roll is plain and the method is very easy with basic ingredients