Whenever I go to Homeplus (big supermarket), there is a corner I always keep an eye on. It is a sushi corner. I often buy sushi at Homeplus. Only when it is cheap though.
Its usual price is 400-600 won each. But sometimes they sell any kind of sushi for 390 won each (US $0.40), like today. So I bought some. This is the picture of my portion and I always get the same stuff. (I bought 2 each of them.)
They are all my favourite.
- From the top: Red and yellow salmon caviar sushi, shrimp sushi, smoked salmon sushi.
Amongst these, the most expensive sushi is salmon caviar sushi when it is not on sale. I like them best too, because I like the popping feeling when I chew them.
If you go to Homeplus you should try some too. It tastes very good too.
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Neko,
Perhaps you don’t realize that Homeplus is a supermarket.
Of course I realize they are not selling high quality sushi (or whatever you want to call it). It’s a cheap way for me to get something tasty and different for less than 50 cents each.
I just typed the labels as they were written on the counter where I bought them.
Thanks for pointing out that the caviar is not salmon roe.
I was just trying to point out a cheap snack to people in Korea.
The slices of fish being so small/thin and the rice balls so lumpy and dry-looking as well as unnaturally square, I can only surmise that they are machine-made to precise specification to minimise cost and maximise profit. The tiny “salmon roe” photographed here are actually eggs from herring or some other fish, and any self-respecting sushi-bar in Japan would sell them for less than boiled shrimp, which is again one of the cheaper and beginner-proof “neta” (toppings).
Any serious sushi eater will appreciate the much fatter and juicy “ikura” (salmon, not herring, roe) and the sweet and succulent “ama-ebi” (sweet raw prawns).
Please wait until you know a bit more about sushi – the authentic variety – before you write about it…. Although it is interesting to see that something that isn’t sushi is sold openly as such in Korea.