Last night, simen and joco came over and we had a japanese dinner!
well... it was supposed to be a bit more varied, but we ended up making just maki rolls XD the initial idea was to make sushi, maki rolls and onigiri, but somehow.... didnt happen. Perhaps it was the illusion that there was too little rice. (there might've been actually)

so anyway, it started out by putting the rice to cook before coating prawns in batter (down here, they're sold already peeled and cooked XD ) and deep frying them. i coated the stuff in batter, joco did the deep frying. hot splattering oil is not the most appealing thing for me . those prawns turned out great though, couldnt help snacking on a couple after.

after the prawns were fried, joco cut them up while i cut up some cucumber and avocado. then came the fun part, making maki rolls! turned out it was relatively simple, just placing rice evenly on a piece of seaweed, then adding ingredients before rolling it up firmly. had to use water to 'glue' down the seaweed, and to make sure we could handle the rice easier. so joco made maki with wasabi, and i made maki without. WASABI IS EVVVVILLLLL

advantage of being the maki makers? we eat the results that dont look look so pretty, usually just the ends ;D

took a couple of pictures, but will have to look for my cardreader somewhere. or i could get some from joco. the guys had sake and i tried some, but dont really like it. they seemed to like the food though, which i'm glad ^^ oh, we didnt make sushi because we couldnt find raw salmon. not a loss for me, since i dont like the raw stuff... XD

maybe i'll get to make onigiri later sometime. i hope i do , making sushi rice itself was pretty interesting XD forgot to mention it earlier, but we had to take out the rice, spread it nicely on a tray and sprinkle japanese rice vinegar mixed with an equal amount of sugar and some salt on it. solves my mystery of how the rice got its taste. which makes me crave for more jap food now... like ... soft shell crab handroll.. ohhhhh.. *drooling*