Customer Reviews

Seaweed Nori for Sushi Making - 50 Full Size Sheets + 1 Sushi Mat

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So you've been paying how much for sushi at those fancy Asian fusion bars? Stop it this minute...start making your own with this nori. It's incredibly cheap, good, and even includes the sushi mat. (Line the mat with plastic wrap...keeps the mat clean and each roll will be wrapped up for refrigerator storage as you roll it.) Use chicken or cooked seafood if you are wary of raw fish (or make vegetarian ones) and don't cut out the slices until ready to serve. There are a number of good internet sites on making sushi...just Google it. Oh, and you'll need Nishiki Premium Sushi Rice (5#) and Nishiki 100% Natural Sushi Vinegar, 10 Fluid Ounces (or their equivalents - lots of competing products), too.

Highly recommended.

After ordering this item, I was skeptical on what quality the nori was going to be at this price. It turns out that I had nothing to worry about. It came intact with no breaks, was sturdy enough to roll, yet delicate enough to chew when rolled. I give this product an A+.

The rolling mat is very cheaply put together, not impressed at all with it, wish I'd gone for a non-bundled mat, might have gotten a decent one. The nori is vile-tasting; I normally love nori with my sushi, but no one in my family, including me, could stand the stuff; we all ended up cutting the nori off (peeling left a residue on the rice) and eating the maki with a fork instead. A day in the fridge only strengthened the bad nori flavor. Awful stuff.

This is a good quality nori and the bamboo mat is a great bonus. I've made 4 full sized maki rolls with it so far, and it performs very well. Maybe a little too thick...but good tasting and well toasted.

As a novice do it yourself sushi chef I tried these seaweed sheets. They worked well for me. May buy them again in the future.

I have been wanting to make a seaweed salad at home like you get in a sushi restaurant. I still haven't accomplished that, but this is a good second best. I throw away the dressing that comes with the salad. The directions say to soak the mix for ten minutes, but I find it is unbearably mushy if I do that. I just rinse, drain, and mix it in with my salad. It's a little salty that way, but it otherwise has a taste and texture like the restaurant salad. (BTW, you only have to rinse and drain as much as you need at a time, just leave the rest in the bag and put a rubber band around it)

This is a great sushi making set. Be warned you really do need a sharp knife and patience to perfect the art of making sushi! I am still working on it but it is healthy and fun. I like to make just a simple roll with brown rice, avocado, imitation crab and some shredded carrots- delish!

This is really the best seaweed mix at such a huge bargain price! Most of the seaweed mix you can get in Asian market costs about $4 for less than 1 oz. Ok, ok, that is the dry weight. Here is 17.63 is seaweed preserved in sea salt. However, there are so much seaweed, its dry weight will be well over 4 oz.

It is funny that previous reviewer say it is one-shot. Of course not, just get a handful of them, which is the normal Japanese portion. And store the rest in the fridge; you can store the rest in the container, or in the bag. I did prepare over 10 times with fresh cucumbers, even spring salad mix. I like their seaweed agar agar strip (B000N6XX3W) too. Just soak a handful for about 5-10 min and cut into seaweed mix for nice texture.

The preparation is very simple. The illustration has done a quite good job. Pier Mall's product information is very helpful with quite tasty recipes.

First up, the dressing didn't come with it.** Secondly, there are no English instructions. That's no hill for those of us that would buy this item, but
I recommend another soak beyond what's in the illustrations. Next, it's all one big bag, so you only get one shot at it. I'd hoped it would've been packaged in 3 or 4 serving sizes.

The taste? Good. **I had to really take a wild guess at what kind of dressing to use. I made my own soy based recipe.

Finally, don't expect the free stuff in the Amazon ad. It wasn't there either.

Save your money and head for your nearest Asian market.