Travel Thursday: if only via food

We haven't left London in awhile (if a month can be considered awhile), but we are potentially heading up to Leicester (pronounced "less-ter") this weekend to visit some of Elliot's family, so hopefully, I come back with something interesting to report.

In the meantime, check out the little trip to Japan sushi we made!

There are some pretty amazing restaurants here, including a ton of fantastic cheap eat options and too many Michelin-starred restaurants for my bank account to handle, but the one thing I am really missing is sushi.

Gone are the days of the $10 lunch combo box at Sea Monstr Sushi that made you so full you (almost) felt like you didn't need dinner and yet, returned for the very next day. Sure, there are good Japanese restaurants but they are way more expensive, and the fish just doesn't taste as fresh. Recommendations more than welcome.

In any case, we decided to make our own sushi at home. Here are the results:

The ingredients! Sushi seasoning is a mix of rice vinegar, sugar, and salt and can apparently also be mixed with soy sauce and sesame oil to make a tasty salad dressing. 

Vegetables (including some slightly brown avocados; oops) and crab sticks. We didn't get real crab this time, but will try to next time. They sell imitation crab here in this handy stick format, unlike the flaky chunks back home.

We also realized too late that we didn't have plastic wrap or cling film. This is because we don't often have leftovers (we also don't have any Tupperware or food storage containers!), and if we do, we just use pot lids as covers when we refrigerate food. 

Anyway, tinfoil ended up being just fine. (As an aside, aluminum—"a-LOO-mi-num"—foil is called aluminium—"a-loo-MIN-ee-um" foil here.)

Our finished rolls!

Sushi feast! Look how red that tuna is! It was delicious.