Kracie Popin Cookin Sushi

Next in line in the Kracie kits is this one, promising different types of sushi. There's probably no way to emulate the fish flavors with candy powder in this case, so I'm expecting some delightful fruit-flavored sushi instead. Would prefer meat flavored, but that's just my nature... maybe I should start making sushi out of the pack's hunts? Anyways one cool feature of this will be the "roe", which seems to be formed by dropping bubbles into the water. And there's even a fake soy sauce!

The pack once again has a mat that can be cut out from the bag, and I quite like the look of this one, has a fancy feel. There's also the standard array of packets, a solid piece of brown candy (which will likely be the nori?) and the utensils, which are a spoon and squeeze bottle.

The first parts were fairly simple, mix the powders into their respective trays. Although the consistencies for all these were quite different. The rice had a bit of a floury texture, and that same white candy taste I can't figure out, that's not quite fruit flavored or ramune but seems like a mix. The egg and salmon I initially thought I did wrong because at first they seemed way too watery, but after a while they hardened into a jelly consistency. Neither seems to have too strong a particular flavor, maybe a strawberry inclination for the tuna but it's slight. The roe is where it gets complicated as it had two components, one for the roe and one for the liquid that it is put in.

The next step involved using the dropper to put the roe into the base liquid, and drop into balls. This was by far the coolest part, as the roe never sticks together after being dropped and never loses its ball shape! I wonder how they do it, maybe the powder put in before has some chemically repellent property with the roe material? Either way, very neat, took a while but it was fun and a little relaxing to watch,

The final product was a pretty simple assembly, mold the rice then put something on top of it (or around it). There were several confusing parts here: first of all there's that abomination in the back where I didn't know if the final bit was supposed to be another bit of egg and tuna? It's not too clear in the directions. Also unclear is how much rice to use for each, there's a sectioned portion that seems like it but it ends up being way too little, which is evident when egg or tuna is put on top of it.

The taste for these is sweet and pleasant, but there's not much of a flavor from any of them. The most flavored element is the roe with a strawberry flavor and nice popping texture. Behind that, the rice with its unusually strong flavor? The seaweed for the life of me I can't figure out what it is (maybe I do have a broken sniffer after all), but it has a really pleasant generic fruity flavor. The egg and tuna... not so much. They do however, serve well in mellowing down the strong flavor of the rice. Overall though the taste is a little too bland... it's just "nice". The soy sauce, which I almost forgot, is the same, a bland pleasant generic fruit flavor. So the taste ends up being too one-note, but the making process for this was fun, especially the roe.

Rating: 5 - Ruff!