Although I am Chinese, my favorite food is Japanese Sushi. I loved it when I tasted it the first time. It’s a little expensive to eat sushi in a Japanese store, so I learned how to make sushi by myself. I’d like to share the process of making it with you.

To make sushi, you must prepare 3 things: tools, raw materials, and seasonings. Firstly, you must prepare the tools which contain a bamboo rolling mat, a sharp steel knife and a pad. Secondly, the raw materials are extremely important. Japanese style rice, seaweed, cucumbers and crab meat sticks are required. Thirdly, you should buy some seasonings such as: sliced ginger, dark soy sauce and wasabi.

After preparing this stuff, we can make sushi right now. The process can be divided into 12 steps. Firstly, the rice must be cooked before putting it aside for cooling for about 1 hour. Next, the cucumbers should be peeled and cut into small pieces. Then, the crab meat sticks can be boiled for 2 minutes. After this, a sheet of seaweed should be placed on the bamboo mat before 2 or 3 tablespoons of sushi rice are spread evenly over it. Subsequently, a crab meat stick and some pieces of cucumber can be added across the center of rice. Then, the bamboo mat should be rolled and folded so the filling is enclosed in the center of the seaweed. After the mat is removed from around the roll, the roll should be pressed in the loose ends and placed on the pad. Last, the roll can be sliced into one-inch round pieces using the steel knife. Do not saw, but cut firmly, straight down.

Now, mix sushi with a little soy sauce, wasabi or, sliced ginger. Of course, you can use anything you like as a filling such as: sea eel, squid, or hen’s egg omelet. The home-made sushi will have it own special flavor.

If you never have eaten sushi, please go to a Japanese store and try it. Even if you have never made it, now making it will be easy if you follow my steps. Enjoy the sushi!