Name: Peking Duck Nigiri Sushi
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: Serves 4/Makes 12
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons water; 1 teaspoon sugar; 2 tablespoons hot water; 2 tablespoons rice vinegar; 12 fine slices spring onion; 12 fine slices cucumber; 3 tablespoons hoi sin sauce; 1 large whole duck breast, skin on; 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce; ¾ cup shortgrain sushi rice, washed until water runs clear; 3 tablespoons brown sugar; ¾ teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder; 1 tablespoon sesame oil; 1 cup water; ½ teaspoon salt; 2 tablespoons mirin

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
45 min

Appears in

China Modern

By Ching-He Huang

Published 2006

About

I fell in love with sushi when I was about 11 years old. My family was preparing to move from South Africa to England and we went back to Taiwan to visit relatives before the relocation. It was at a sushi restaurant in Taipei near where my aunt lived that I first tried Sashimi (slices of raw fish) dipped in wasabi (blow-your-socks-off horseradish paste) and light soy. I remember my father telling me that I should hold my breath when eating this way, to avoid breathing in the wasabi which gi