08-02-2003, 04:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-02-2003, 04:40 AM by Nicodemus Phaulkon.)
What you do, see... is take a small bunch of sticky rice; roll it into a ball, and then wrap some dried, flattened seaweed around it, making the rice the bottom of a "cup", with the seaweed as the sides. Right: then you spoon in a HUGE amount of fish eggs. Salmon eggs to be precise; the roe are called "ikura" in this situation.
![[Image: ikura.gif]](http://www.midorimart.com/image/sushi/nigiri/ikura.gif)
Now, hollow out a small dent in the top of the ikura, and now you gingerly, gently and lovingly crack open a raw Quail's egg and have it nestle right into that dent in the fish eggs.
Perfect!
Now then: pick it up with chopsticks and pop the whole thing in your mouth. Isn't that wonderful! You can feel all the mushy-crunchiness, mixed with the slipperiness of the Quail egg? Yeah! And the brine from the fish eggs adds JUST the right amount of saltiness! Normally this sort of piece would have been constructed from a Quail egg nestled in Tobiko, which is Flying Fish eggs... and much, MUCH smaller, but I prefer those BIG, HUGE POPS with all that salty brine inside. :D
How 'you doin'? Here, have a sip of the green tea. Shake it off... shake it off...
Now then... let's try the Uni! Uni is not something that everyone likes... sort of an "acquired taste". It's actually the sexual organs of a sea urchin, and has been best described as having the flavor of 3-week-old athletic socks!
![[Image: uni.gif]](http://www.midorimart.com/image/sushi/nigiri/uni.gif)
*looks at Feryar's face*
Excellent... we're making progress... :D
*tips helm*
Now, hollow out a small dent in the top of the ikura, and now you gingerly, gently and lovingly crack open a raw Quail's egg and have it nestle right into that dent in the fish eggs.
Perfect!
Now then: pick it up with chopsticks and pop the whole thing in your mouth. Isn't that wonderful! You can feel all the mushy-crunchiness, mixed with the slipperiness of the Quail egg? Yeah! And the brine from the fish eggs adds JUST the right amount of saltiness! Normally this sort of piece would have been constructed from a Quail egg nestled in Tobiko, which is Flying Fish eggs... and much, MUCH smaller, but I prefer those BIG, HUGE POPS with all that salty brine inside. :D
How 'you doin'? Here, have a sip of the green tea. Shake it off... shake it off...
Now then... let's try the Uni! Uni is not something that everyone likes... sort of an "acquired taste". It's actually the sexual organs of a sea urchin, and has been best described as having the flavor of 3-week-old athletic socks!
*looks at Feryar's face*
Excellent... we're making progress... :D
*tips helm*
Garnered Wisdom --
If it has more than four legs, kill it immediately.
Never hesitate to put another bullet into the skull of the movie's main villain; it'll save time on the denouement.
Eight hours per day of children's TV programming can reduce a grown man to tears -- PM me for details.
If it has more than four legs, kill it immediately.
Never hesitate to put another bullet into the skull of the movie's main villain; it'll save time on the denouement.
Eight hours per day of children's TV programming can reduce a grown man to tears -- PM me for details.