Ninben Temaki Katsuo にんべん手巻きかつお

Ninben is a famous shop in Nihonbashi that specializes in katsuobushi. Katsuobushi is an essential ingredient for dashi. It's also used as a topping for vegetables, okonomiyaki, and much more. A friend gave this to us and we were very curious to try temaki made with katsuobushi instead of nori.

The pre-cut sheets of katsuobushi were very small and hard to work with.

And here is the resulting temaki-zushi. I can't say that I'll try it again. I love the minerality and earthiness of nori when eating hand rolls. I do love the creativity and originality of the product, just not sure if this was a hit.