Some friends and chirashi sushi

We had friends come join us this lovely sunday afternoon (in the airconditioned living room),

for an extravagant chirashi sushi lunch and lots of chat and play.

We wanted to try making this after watching it made on TV by a very popular japanese chef.

But the variety of seafood and vegetables used, meant that if i made it for the 2 of us, we would have to go on a diet for the next few days.

This was how large the dish turned out to be

With lots of summer vegetable pickles tossed in too.

Well, the dish was so-so cos the seafood we bought were all frozen stuff, so definitely not as fantastic as the ones we eat at the sushi restaurant.

But to have the company of our friends made the sunday very enjoyable.

Dinner was curry
with pickles.

Didn't use any curry roux today since we had so much vegetables.

Made our own curry based on the curry powder mix that i always stock from Singapore and lots of mashed pumpkin and dried sakura prawns.

The thing about Japanese curry, is that, if you add a little bit of this and that, the curry flavour deepens. So people add fruits, all kinds of mashed vegetables, and seasoning in. Sometimes chocolate too. This time i added lots of sakura prawns cos i reckoned they would match the pork based curry. It was good!

But somehow, reminded me of mee siam. hehe now i feel inspired to try making mee siam!