Cute and Cuddly Mas Loco Onigiri

So as we posted earlier last week we wanted to incorporate Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco into some kind of sushi. We chose to make Onigiri which are the rice triangles that would be found next to Spam Musubi. This time we actually went out and bought the proper tools to make such a dish at a Japanese store called Ichiban Kan in El Cerrito.

The store was filled to the brim with all sorts of food, gadgets, and other rediculously cheap items you normally would not buy at an American store. Since we were at a Japanese store everything was super cheap and we spent about $28 dollars on the items we needed for the meal, we also bought other stuff and the overall total came to $40. We would have spent more but the shopping basket was getting full.

We got four sushi presses to make shapes, Onigiri, Musubi, and rolls. They take the dumbass out of dumbass sushi chef, so we are sushi chefs....YUSSSS!

Ichiban Kan is located all across the Bay Area, we went to the closest one to us in El Cerrito.

The store is small but is packed with anything and everything you can imagine that comes from Japan except for that weird stuff on the internet with an octopus. None the less we found the items we needed. 

Eddie and I spent a long time in the snack and food section, the items ranged from odd fish stuff in a can to candies and sodas. The best part was finding Nori aka sushi weed for real low cheap! So I stocked up, I also got the tofu skin wrappers that are filled with rice. If you were to see them you will know what they are, they come in about every order of gas station sushi.

Now for the star of the show, the Doritos Locos Taco. Luckily there was a Taco Bell down the road from Ichiban Kan, now this was no ordinary Taco Bell. They securely guarded the sacred orange puffed sweetness behind bullet proof glass to the point were you couldn't speak with the cashier. We tried to get a last minute quickie on the order but it was a no go, resulting in the tacos being slid by a bullet proof tray. The tray was rated for a .50 cal round, so the wild gangs of El Cerrito don't mess around holmes. 

The quesadilla maker was a pain to clean so we donated it and borrowed a George Foreman Grill. When we received the grill we were told it was clean but looked as if someone charred a pigeon with it's feathers on. The upside was that all the pork juices drained into the catch tray which was later donated as well. AND! An entire can of spam neatly fit all at once.

It's what it looks like.

Loco Glue

The Onigiri mold was pretty crafty, just like making musubi you just layer your rice and filling, then press down. Traditionally there is a small indent in the top of the triangle for segregating the different fillings, so that is what the protruding bump on the top is for. 

Just a breath taking view of molded pork and a small Vietnamese man's special sauce.

So the smaller mold in the back is what Eddie bought, you can mold a heart, star, and bear out of rice. They didn't hold much but were pretty funny.

These were the best of all we made, aren't they cute? We thought so, so we ate them all.

Japanese Big Mac

To conclude the Tex Mex / Japanese fusion I think the Mas Locos Onigiri tasted different. I know you are thinking well duh it will not taste like eating the taco. The best way to describe it was, it tasted like the taco but missing the crunch from the entire shell. So it was like Taco Bell baby food in sushi, if you can imagine that you are spot on.

Next time we eat a Tsunami before it eats Japan!

-Gerber 4 LYFE!

Eating All of Mexico

Instead of stuffing our faces in low quality mess deck food, my two friends and I chose to eat at Mi Pueblo Food Center off of Solano. This is like the Mexican Walmart, it has a full super market, tequila corner, and a full deli / taquera.

So I normally hit up the hot line, there are: soups, stews, fajitas, and other amazing ready to eat dishes. My usual is a shrimp chimichanga, sope, and a chile rellano or I just settle for a carnitas burrito. But tonight there was a faint smell of 24 tacos served in a metal tray. So we ordered 24 tacos with chicken, steak, and carnitas.

The magical package of south of the border goodness was carefully concealed in a metal box. 

(Insert drooling mouths here)

Post eating of Mexico resulted in being too full to walk out of the market and recovering with a food coma. 

Loren Out!

Mess Deck Delight

Welcome back sports fans! So for those of you readers from CMA you already know the pure gnarliness of the food we are forced to choke down three times a day. I'm going to make this post short but I want to point out just one of the reasons we decided to start making our foods.

So tonight I went to the mess deck, I was so hungry I would have eaten the balls off of a low flying duck. Well not to my surprise, the food that was served was worthy of an Epic Meal Time, only didn't look delicious one bit. We got a little crazy and decided to try the "Open Face Meatloaf Sammich" and tots.

This beast was one tough chew. Well i should say tough swallow as the meat kept solid but turned into meat toothpaste in my piehole. I tried adding onions to mask the taste but that only made matters worse. So after drowning the entire "meal" in ketchup I was able to finish most of it.

If it isn't obvious, this is why we have attempted to make our own grub.

Mas Loco Onigiri

After the musubi success, we wanted to make the rice triangles that you typically see next to the musubi in markets and street stands. These are called Onigiri, pretty much a rice ball that is formed in the shape of a triangle or other shapes and filled with some kind of meat, fish, or paste.

So, in our quest to combine traditional sushi techniques with college age food cravings I was sent this idea by Eddie.

As you can see we take the ever glorious Doritos Locos Taco from Taco Bell and blend it into a paste, then fill the Onigiri with it.

I know it isn't super complicated but sure does look good on paper.

Now for this recipe we need to acquire a blender to the arsenal of cooking supplies. I will want to use something the size of a Magic Bullet  or something with a bit more power like a juicer that will extract the sweet necture that is held with in the Locos Taco so maybe this  puppy will have enough umph to get the job done. 

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-Loren OUT!

Spam Musubi (Mitsubishi) Sushi

Loren- I went home and got a can of spam, rice seasoning, wasabi powder, and a few other ingredients. After the success of the last culinary experience Eddie and I wanted to make something else, so spam musubi it was.

We cooked 3 cups of rice making 6 cups of cooked, mixed in the seasoning until it was peppered throughout.

The first problem we had was not having a musubi mold, normally you can buy them at almost any asian dollar store so if you want one go find it. We used a tupperware that was in the room to mold the rice into blocks. 

The tupperware is filled to about an inch from the bottom

Then just packed it down to hold the shape

At first I just wanted to warm up the spam in the rice cooker as the rice cooked but that would be like eating a warm soft pork stick, so Eddie broke out the quesadilla maker to grill the canned meat.

At first we were pretty impressed with ourselves until the room started filling with the aroma of two boars mating, so we opened all the windows. Then our friend told us it smelled like a steamy barn yard all the way down the walk way. So we will have to fix that in the future.

The Nori (Weed wrapper) was left over from the last adventure of sushi, it is just half a full wrapper and fit the block of rice perfectly

We still had three sweet and sour sauces left over so those integrated well

The world famous cock sauce was brought to the food orgy

We made 7 musubis with one being segregated due to the lack of weed wrappers. The combinations we made were 2 with wasabi, 2 with cock sauce, 2 sweet and sour, and 2 with everything.

They tasted great, each with a hint of mating boar. As a half asian myself I was impressed with them tasting pretty close to real musubis. 

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McDonalds Sushi Rolls

So after watching numerous episodes of Epic Mealtime we wanted to make fast food sushi, we didn't have any kind of cooking equipment yet so after looking on amazon we came across a $17 six cup rice cooker. As college students on a budget it was ordered immediately. Following its arrival we searched for local asian markets in Vallejo, to no surprise there were only two. One was like a convenience store of asian markets being in an old are a vallejo which mostly had filipino food, but was good for the rolling mats and a bag of rice. The other market is like the Walmart of asian super stores and carried everything else.

Once back at the downstairs mixup (Dorm room under the housing director) we proceeded to cook away.

The rice cooker is nicely set up on the fridge and out of the way and the side table made a nice work station. So for the Mickey D's items we got the 20 piece nuggies meal, 3 cheeseburgers and a Mc Chicken. The sauces were saracha sauce and a shit load of sweet and sour sauce complements of Mr. R Mc D.

We rolled a few fatties

From left to right: Burgers and fries, Nugs, Burgers and nugs

From left to right: Burgers and nugs, nugs and Mc Chicken, and nugs

In total we made six rolls, each was about a cup of rice a roll. In the end we ate all but half a roll.

Immediately following the feast I thought I was going to have a stroke and promptly went into a food coma. 

-Eddie & Loren

Who We Are

Two college friends that are sick and tired of eating the cafeteria food on campus. Due to living in the dorms there are many restrictions to common resources found in the home kitchen, like a stove for example. So we are making due with a rice cooker, quesadilla maker, mini refrigerator, cutting board, knife, and two bowls.