Well, I absolutely love sushi. California rolls and tuna rolls are my favorite. I also love roe (salmon eggs) sprinkled on top.

Fun Fact #1: My uncle is of Japanese decent and knows how to roll sushi, and taught me how to do it. It was a lot of fun and we made a whole afternoon of it at his house, complete with other dishes, like tamaki (a cone shaped roll of nori filled loosely with fish, sticky rice, and other ingredients that spill out of the wide end) and the adults had Saki. It was a lot of fun.

Fun Fact #2: His wife, my auntie (and my mom's sister), has a fondness for Mochi, and often brings some to share. It's a sort of round squishy desert made of rice paste with a filling of sweat bean paste of a certain flavor, like strawberry or kiwi. It comes packaged in a tray of about 12 or so Mochi balls. The kind she gets has to be refrigerated or it'll spoil. The sweetness of it isn't super sweet, like most western deserts, but rather a subtle sweetness. According to my Auntie, the Japanese don't like super sweet foods. Apparently, that's more so a western thing.