Candy sushi kit

[Video Link] My 7-year-old daughter and I had a great time making candy sushi from the $5 Popin' Cookin' sushi candy making kit. I made a video about it.

• [Anonymous]

  Wonderful! Domo, Mark-san.

• [TimmoWarner]

  That’s it! I’m ordering a couple of these.

• [blueelm]

  Hahaha! That’s so cute. Your daughter is adorable too!

• [mellowknees]

  This is pretty awesome!

  I am, however, wondering how one popes while cooking…is that explained in the instructions? :P

  • [AndrewF]

    Poping is a synonym for pontifficating ;-)

    • [mellowknees]

      Awesome, thank you!

      So, it’s “Pontificatin’/Cookin’”, then!

• [sam1148]

  Looks pretty cool. Does it come with English instructions?

  • [Mark Frauenfelder]

    No, the instructions are Japanese only. But here is an English translation.

• [Anonymous]

  Woo, I just made this a couple weekends ago. It was fun. I just used the video and the drawings on the package for instructions.

  You can get them on ebay.

• [Gilbert Wham]

  Kind of reminds me of the candy kits Boomzilla buys in Gibson’s Idoru.

• [Anonymous]

  Looks cool, but what the heck is in that stuff? I followed the link, and there are instructions, but I don’t see anything that lists the ingredients. I don’t expect that its “healthy” which is fine, but would like to know what chemicals its made from before buying it. Any idea how to find out?

• [Anonymous]

  this is delightful I sent it to my brother in the hopes he buys a set for my God Daughter and Nephew but somewhat selfishly I want to thank you for this amazing song :)

  let’s all keep praying for the good people of Japan….

• [Anonymous]

  i’m thinking grated coconut to do the rice, careful about the texture of the fillings, actually saw some english licorices that sushi made me think of.

• [Anonymous]

  @Anon I guess xalcium lactate + alginate for the salmon roe, and agar as hardening agent for the egg/tuna thingy. And sugar + colorings + flavourings, of course. Dunno about the rice stuff.

• [kentkb]

  Hey! my “Wonderful! Domo, Mark-san.” I came out as someone named “Anon”.

  Jeez, why doesn’t my very smart computer take better care of me, and sign me in to the things I forget to sign into?

  Jeez!
  I can not get over how great the ” fish eggs ” look!
  How did they Taste?

• [scifijazznik]

  My girlfriend turned me on to the weirdly wonderful and fascinating world of konapun a while back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ZOTIeOZS8

  As a model maker, I love the process and think it’s hilarious how all the kitchen supplies are miniaturized. But it’s a bit of a waste because you can’t eat it and it doesn’t keep. So I guess it’s a sort of consumerist Zen practice?

  But this seems to have solved the edibility problem. Definitely going to pick some up.

• [WMC]

  How dies it taste? What’s the texture like?

• [WMC]

  Grar – ‘does’, even.

• [Anonymous]

  I just went and bought one of each of their food kits. This looks like happy mutant fodder!