A New Popin’ Cookin’ Sushi Candy
J-List has sold a lot of fun snack products over the years, everything from Green Tea Kit Kit Kat to the official Grave of the Fireflies candies to traditional Saki-ika (dried, shreded squid, which goes great with beer). One s series of products we really love selling is the Popin’ Cookin’ line of DIY snacks that you make yourself, sold by Kracie.
Today’s post will focus on the new version of the Popin’ Cookin’ DIY Sushi Candy, which has brought so much happiness to so many people around the world. This version is called the Tanoshii Sushi-ya-san or Fun Sushi Shop, and it’s got a lot of nice new features that make creating this sushi candy loads of fun.
Here’s the complete list of all the products you get. The tray for mixing the ingredients, the powder that makes the “rice,” the powder that makes the other kinds of sushi materials, a spoon and spoit, and everything else.
(While we’re going over how to make the sushi in this blog post, there’s a link to fully translated English instructions, at the bottom of this post.)
These are your sushi “plates,” which your so she will sit on. In mawari-zushi (conveyor belt sushi) restaurants, each color plate denotes a different amount of money you have to pay at the end.
How to make the sushi rice. Combine all of the “rice powder” in the main packet in the largest compartment, as shown. Add some water.
Next you’ll create the tamago (scrambled egg) and maguro (tuna) fish parts, which you make in these compartments. Add water, and wait three minutes for each of these to harden.
Using the dropper, pick up the ikura liquid and drop it into water in this compartment, so that you make little balls of gelatin that look like fish eggs.
Eventually, you’ll end up with balls of fake salmon roe, which look like this. Very realistic-looking.
Now it’s time to make the nori seaweed you will use to complete the ikura sushi piece. Spread it out as shown.
Set up the nori and rice like this. (Ignore the red and yellow sushi for now, we’ll do those below.) This kind of sushi, with rice wrapped in nori seaweed and fish or some other type of topping on top, is known as gunkan or “battleship” sushi.
Use the included spoon to top your sushi piece with fake ikura fish eggs.
Now it’s time to make the tamago sushi, or scrambled eggs sushi. This is one of my favorites. Pick up the shaped piece, which should be nice and hard by now, with the spoon, and put it on top of the “rice.” You can make two pieces of tamago sushi.
Do the same with the maguro tuna sushi. There are two of these, too.
You can’t eat sushi without some soy sauce. Add some soy sauce, which you have prepared in the tray, using the tripper.
Here’s what the sushi looks like, when lined up on the “plates.” They look good enough to eat!
Itadakimasu! (Japanese for bon appetit!)
Note that these are the official English instructions created by the company. You should follow these when you make your sushi.
https://youtu.be/aczliyiYKOM
Here is official video from Kracie「Nerune-Labo」 : YouTube Official Channel (via)
