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Sushi Battle

In life, we must always try to learn how to do something new. That's how I learned desktop publishing out of nowhere. Well, I learned it from a VERY EXPENSIVE $#@$^& BOOK from MPH. And then I bought another similarly expensive book for another reason....Adope Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Please take a moment to imagine a writer / law graduate trying to GET THE COMPLICATED PROGRAMS to work in the wee hours of the morning? But I never give up. I don't like losing (read: bloody sore loser. If I lose, it's somebody else's fault....ALL THE TIME!), so I persist. All of a sudden, I want to learn how to make sushi because my mother-in-law's maid made damn nice sushi. If she can make sushi, then I can make BETTER sushi. Let me tell you folks.....it was sooooooooooooooo NOT better. Disaster was the word. Did I tell you about how I hate to lose? Yeah? OK, here it is again....I hate to lose. I could be all kinds of things but loser is not one of them. I rolled a total of 7 disasters before I resorted to YouTube (shoulda done it sooner) and HAHAHAHA....you see, my mother-in-law's maid don't have Youtube, man. Mah man!!! 8th pieces of seaweed on, lo and behold, it looked half decent....except that something is wrong with the vegs. They keep slipping out. Buggers. I go back to Youtube for another video and so you've got to PACK IT REALLY TIGHT!! Why didn't the first video say so??? Moron. I'll sue the fugger. With rice in my hair, I finally made half-decent sushi. Hehehehehe. Please....just applaud. Just gimme five claps. One clap? p.s. please read in jest. I lose all the time, ok? And I live. :-)
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blinka.Li said…
u use jap rice? got add a bit vinegar? got d right tool to wrap or not? knife sharp enuf to cut or not ??? ;P
October 8, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Marsha Maung said…
blinka, yup. buy jap rice, jap vinegar and also that roll-roll thing. knife is for what ah? oh...the fish. don't have lah. i didn't make sashimi wor. kids don't like it. say it's like jelly and tasteless. so, made normal sushi only lor, with crab meat and eggs
October 8, 2009 at 2:25 PM
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