Other sushi includes types of sushi that don’t quite fit in so well to the other categories. This includes inari-zushi and sumeshi, the sushi rice.

What do you get when you cross a fried pig with a nutty monkey? I have no idea, but it tastes surprisingly good!

So now that you know how to make oshizushi, it’s time to make some! You can use most ingredients in oshizushi, although squishier ingredients work better since they can compress very nicely. Here are some of the creations we tried…

This is a more complicated take on plain inari sushi. Son likes to make this fried rice for me occasionally (this is the only thing he ever cooks for me ) so we thought we would put it into inari and see how it turned out!

Inari-zushi is a packet of fried bean curd, filled with rice. It tastes better than it sounds, I swear!

Sumeshi, also known as sushi-meshi, is the Japanese term for the sushi rice. Sumeshi is used in sushi, giving it a light but distinct flavor.