Remember I told you about the goodies I picked up at Tokyo Japan Lifestyle? One of those goodies was a candy sushi making kit from Popin Cookin. Popin Cooking sells DIY candy kits from Japan.
These kits contain everything you need to make some homemade candy or "Ame" in Japanese. The particular kit we purchased makes candy's that resemble a sushi dinner. Tamago (egg), Maguro (tuna), Ikura (salmon roe), and Chirashi (which means scattered). Since the instructions included with the kit are entirely in Japanese and my Japanese is more then rusty we watched a You Tube video with step by step instructions on how to make our sushi candy.
Here we are getting all the components together. Each little packet contains some sort of powder that is sweet and when mixed with water creates a reaction and turns into gummy candy. Ta Da! Unfortunately Penelope added a little to much water to the maguro and tamago and they did not set as they were supposed to. The gohan (rice) and ikura however came out perfect.
Penelope thought it was super cool when we dropped one liquid into another and it became these tiny gelatinous balls that were identical to ikura minus the brine-y taste. Although two of the candy's we attempted were failures we still had fun creating these Japanese sweets.
These kits contain everything you need to make some homemade candy or "Ame" in Japanese. The particular kit we purchased makes candy's that resemble a sushi dinner. Tamago (egg), Maguro (tuna), Ikura (salmon roe), and Chirashi (which means scattered). Since the instructions included with the kit are entirely in Japanese and my Japanese is more then rusty we watched a You Tube video with step by step instructions on how to make our sushi candy.
Here we are getting all the components together. Each little packet contains some sort of powder that is sweet and when mixed with water creates a reaction and turns into gummy candy. Ta Da! Unfortunately Penelope added a little to much water to the maguro and tamago and they did not set as they were supposed to. The gohan (rice) and ikura however came out perfect.
Penelope thought it was super cool when we dropped one liquid into another and it became these tiny gelatinous balls that were identical to ikura minus the brine-y taste. Although two of the candy's we attempted were failures we still had fun creating these Japanese sweets.
