Our young little girl celebrated her 6th birthday last night with a dinner celebration with cousins and us grown ups of course. I had disapproved the commercial Japanese maki this time and said we can make our own maki individually, it’s so easy. So I bought all the ingredients all the guests needed:
– raw blue marlin sashimi
– raw yellow fin tuna sashimi
– raw salmon sashimi
– organic white rice + rice vinegar et al to make Japanese sushi rice
– several brands of sushi sea weed wrapper
– mangoes
– cucumbers
– a big box of fish roe
– fermented and brewed soy sauce, bought a different brand this time
– made our own home made mayonnaise with raw duck egg yolks + extra virgin olive oil + butter + sea salt
– got 3 rolling mats people could share
Aside from the sushi roll your owns, I tried an appetizer with dried dilis plus raw monggo bean sprouts.
And later on was served some peking duck my wife bought from Laguna at a place called “Itlog ni Kuya”, we just re-heated it in the oven.
Sifu Jem Sam was there doing his acupuncture thing and said that in his more than decade stay in the Philippines he had never seen such a healthy spread in a party. It’s usually spaghetti, pancit and soft drinks.
Oh I almost forgot my wife served a health drink juice she made from raw lemon and raw basil leaves. Oh so refreshing!