This sushi roll is a full sheet of seaweed with rice, asparagus, ebi shrimp, kanikama, Japanese mayonaise, radish sprouts, and a whole soft-shell crab that is tempura fried. It is then topped with eel and sriracha sauce, masago, and chopped radish sprouts. I always enjoy making this sushi roll because the combination of ingredients makeup for great textures and it is packed with a lot of sushi loving flavor.
The Spiderman can be difficult to roll because there's so much inside it. One of my greatest challenges with this is keeping the ingredients from sliding out from the ends. I've had times where the claws of the crab fallout after I've rolled it up and it's frustrating. I guess I tend to think of myself as a sushi surgeon in a sense because every once in awhile I have to operate on the rolls. LOL One example would be where the end piece will fall apart when it wasn't rolled tight enough and I would have to make one piece of the roll instead of making an entire roll. This method is not very easy and requires some practice to develop solid craft. I would think that after thousands of sushi rolls I've made, that I would have my craft nearly perfected.
I feel this roll stands better on its own because of its size and Let me explain.... usually sushi rolls are set in rows positioned at angles creating a zig-zag like pattern. This is probably the way most sushi rolls are set aside from maybe stacked up or laid flat. I set this roll creating a lot of space in a diagonal direction going from the bottom left to the upper right corner of the plate. The two end pieces are placed facing down in the upper left corner. The next step is saucing it! I get excited when saucing this because it's where I get to paint. The lines are painted with the eel sauce that fall in a vertical motion that act like an abstract spiderweb if you will.
The images of the Spiderman are the Drunken Fish's design. One image is of a customized Spiderman roll wrapped in thin sheets of cucumber. I was quite pleased with the quality of the cucumber wrap because I was able to keep the roll intact. Haha!! I will always take the sushi tickets with the odd rolls like this because they challenge my sushi rolling skills. (^_^)
*These pictures were taken from my iPhone.
