Natto maki

I watched this large-scale Korean drama called "IRIS" lately. It's amazingly well made like a full scale movie filmed in Korea, North Korea, Japan and Hungary. It's a drama about people who try to destroy the organization called "IRIS" that wants to control the whole of Korea with force. Basically the conflict between 'North' and 'South' is not the matter in this drama as the organization involves both of them.

The average audience rating of the whole 20 stories in Korea was more than 30% and the most rating moment was 50.2%! (wikipedia) The drama is a fiction but the fact of it's being so popular makes me understand that the relationship between North and South Korea is much more complicated than what the media says in the western society and including Japan.

Ingredients:

cooked rice

natto

cucumber

nori

vinegar

sugar

salt

1- Mix vinegar, sugar (2:1 depending on the amount of rice) and a bit of salt.

2- When the rice cooked, put 1 in and stir softly. Try to make the air go through between every rice.

3- Cut the natto finely.

4- Put a bamboo sheet, nori, rice, cucumber and natto in order (see the picture of makizushi). And roll it up.

Enjoy with soy sauce and wasabi!

Itadakimasu.