I prefer the powdered Tamanoi sushinoko as well but it's not as straightforward on ingredients. You can do either it's the same stuff same effect. Vinegar, sugar, salt. Goin' down the same hatch. lol.

Yes, it's the seasoned one. You add about 1/4 cup per something like 6 cups cooked rice adjusting for taste. Do it while the rice is really hot, keep turning it with the paddle and fan it to cool and wick away the extra moisture from the added vinegar. It'll get a little shiny. You can wait until it cools down to warm to work with it.

I'm sure CMdeux or I can help with that and Guittard while we're at it. I can mail it on Monday. Shoot me a list if that time frame works for you. I suspect one of the locally owned Korean grocery store is zainichi-owned. They tend to have the huge packs of Yama Moto Yama nori packs for Japanese domestic market (like Costco sized in resealable bag). I can throw in some Choco Pie or Calpis if you're fiending for it. They only have Korean brand daifuku, I think.

Guittard is really everywhere here. I might have to track down the bars again but it's chips galore for cheap.

etiquette. 

So anyway I'll look for those. If I can't find them locally I'll see if I can find them online. My son is not interested in the sushi for the moment so we haven't even tried that yet.

The English translations don't work that's why.

Kikkoman
Rice Vinegar (not seasoned sushi, just plain)
Aji-mirin (don't worry about the 'real' hon mirin)


No one who puts up pictures of chopsticks sticking up in a bowl of rice is worried about hon mirin. just get the Kikkoman plain rice vinegar and aji mirin.

There's rice vinegar, sushi seasoned rice vinegar, rice wine, then we've got our seasoned rice wine that really isn't seasoned rice wine.

Mirin isn't sake, it's sweeter and lower alcohol content. Cooking sake is similar to drinking sake in alcohol content but it's high salt content to be sold as a seasoning/condiment rather than its beverage counterpart. Aji mrin has very little sake content, it has a lot of sugar, some salt and some vinegar, it's the commercial bottled stuff in most mom's kitchen (the 'fake' mirin). Hon mirin is the real stuff if you need for 'cuisine' it's a true brewed naturally sweeter alcohol from fermented rice.

Su is rice vinegar. Sushisu is rice vinegar sweetened with sugar and salted. No alcohol content unless you're drinkin' separately. Get your shochu on. Yee-haw.

http://www.kikkoman.com/foodforum/thejapanesetable/28.shtml

Is this seasoned rice vinegar the same as rice wine vinegar? I just saw a couple of recipes I'd like to try that both call for rice wine vinegar. Or is there a substitute that is both easy to find and safe?