Whaaat?! Oh, so that’s what that little soy sauce fish is for with your sushi!
Those little bottles of soy sauce in the sushi kit—what are you supposed to do with them? Do you pour the sauce into the lid of the takeaway sushi, then dip? Or do you have a little dish for it? This TikTok star has a brilliant solution to this problem.
The TikTok video made by Australian vlogger April-Joy took the entire internet by storm. By now, 2.6 million people have seen it. And all for such a simple trick, allowing you to enjoy maki and uramaki with soy sauce without making a huge mess.
Pierce it with the nozzle
What does April-Joy do? She uses the bottle’s nozzle to poke holes in the sushi roll, allowing the soy sauce to drip inside. With uramaki, which has rice on the outside, it’s not that difficult: you simply push the spout of the plastic soy sauce fish bottle in between. With maki, she pokes holes with the nozzle, as if she were vaccinating the sushi with sauce.
Is soy sauce even supposed to go with it?
To be fair: you’re not actually supposed to drown your sushi in that dark sauce. Truly good sushi is eaten the way the chef serves it to you. If it’s supposed to come with wasabi or some soy sauce, you’ll get it on the side—so don’t mindlessly run everything through all the sauces. Of course, at fantastic sushi restaurants, the rice is lukewarm, the fillings incredibly fresh and the presentation unbelievably artistic. You can’t expect that from takeaway sushi: it’s usually fridge-cold and nowhere near as refined. So there’s no need to feel ashamed of a dollop of pink ginger, a smear of wasabi or a generous puddle of soy sauce.
Entire life turned upside down
The comments under the video are pretty hysterical about April-Joy’s sushi hack. ‘OMG absolute game changer’ and ‘My life will never be the same again.’ A little dramatic, non? Still, it is handy. From now on, poke holes in that supermarket sushi.
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