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Wednesday night a group of SIParCS interns gathered for a night of sushi making and eating.  The group consisted of Evan, Kuo, Nick, Dan, Kate, and myself.  After work Evan stopped by Whole Foods and picked up some supplies, including sushi grade fish, rice, vinegar, wasabi powder, soy sauce, and vegetables.  It turns out someone just cleaned out most of the sushi-grade fish just before Evan.  We ended up with a small amount of tuna and around a pound of salmon.

Surprisingly, making a roll that tastes good was quite easy.  Not surprisingly, making a roll that looked good was very hard.  I can definitely understand why people can study sushi making their whole lives and never master the art.  There are so many interesting tastes, ingredients, and techniques to explore–the variations are so numerous!  I’m definitely going to have to make more of this type of cuisine in the future.

Following the sushi making/eating and beer drinking, we headed out (around 10pm) to play ‘bocce ball’ around Evan’s apartment complex.  I put it in quotes because, despite knowing the exact rules of the real game, I doubt we were actually following them at all.  Mostly we just made up a game using the ceramic balls from the bocce ball set Evan had purchased a few days before.  It reminded me of when I was much younger and we would make up games on our own and play for hours.  Apparently it takes late nights, sushi, and beer to do this now.  Regardless, it was lots of fun!