Featured on WFAA Good Morning Texas, March 27, 2006

Chocolate Sushi: Looks Can Be Deceiving

By Madelyn Miller, the TravelLady

Chocolate and cookies and sushi: These are my favorite food groups. And now someone has figured out how to combine my favorites.

Suedy’s Koo-Ki Sushi, based in San Jose, CA, has created unique cookie confections, designed to resemble popular sushi pieces. These delectable morsels with a Japanese twist come in a variety of sushi shapes that look like they came straight from the sushi bar. But Suedy’s Koo-Ki Sushi uses premium chocolate, crispy rice cookies and candies instead of seaweed, vinegar and rice.

These sweet ‘sushi’ can be ordered as individual pieces on chocolate plates or in multi-piece Bento or Washi boxes. The elegant pairs of Choc Sticks (chocolate chopsticks) are inlaid with pieces of crème de menthe, mocha bean or strawberry and are perfect swirled into coffee or hot cocoa.

I love that the chocolates are not mere replicas but flavored with tastes that suggest the original. The selection includes:

Apricot Roe

Berry Maguro

Lemon-Egg

Apricot Row (ikura or salmon roe): A crisp rice cookie under rows of apricot flavored “gummi-eggs” wrapped in dark chocolate.

Berry Maguro (maguro or tuna): A strawberry flavored chocolate “tuna filet” with a milk chocolate hazelnut center and a touch of green tea “wasabi” on a crisp rice cookie.

Great White Sushi (ebi or shrimp): A creamy white “shrimp” with almond filling atop a drop of green tea “wasabi” on a crisp rice cookie.

Lemon-Egg (tamago or egg) Lemon flavored “egg omelet” with lemon meringue filling draped over a crisp rice cookie and tied with dark chocolate.

Fruit-O-Maki (futo maki or rolled sushi): A medley of fruit-flavored pieces, caramel and dark chocolate rolled inside a crisp rice cookie and a dark chocolate wrapper

Suedy’s Koo-Ki Sushi also has hand-decorated Lucky Cats, said to bring good fortune,  that aren’t made of wood, ivory or porcelain, but solid Belgian chocolate, and Kanpai (which means “Cheers!” in Japanese) Cups made of chocolate. Although tasty on their own, these cups can be used to serve sake, liqueur or sorbet for a luscious finish to a meal.

Visit www.kookisushi.com

Madelyn Miller is a writer and web developer who founded www.travellady.com, www.carladynews.com, www.todaysgooddeeds.com. She co-founded www.chocolateatlas.com, www.cocktailatlas.com.

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