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How to make a lucky sushi roll with KFC fried chicken skin【SoraKitchen】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 3, 2026 - Tweet
Mr. Sato dreams up an innovative way to ensure good luck and give yourself an excuse to eat fried chicken.
- Japan
- (COK • Ehomaki • fried chicken • fried chicken skin • Kentucky Fried Chicken • Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan • KFC • KFC Japan • setsubun • SNJO • SoraKitchen • sushi • sushi rolls)
Start saving room now – Japanese grocery store’s biggest sushi roll yet is coming for Setsubun
- Casey Baseel
Dec 21, 2025
The “super-thick” ehomaki is a luxurious way to ensure good luck for your home and family in the coming year.
- Japan
- (awesome • big food • COK • crazy • culture • Ehomaki • food • lucky rolls • SNJO • sushi • sushi rolls.Setsubun)
Wish your loved ones great success this year with a slab of breaded beef in a sushi roll
- Master Blaster
Jan 21, 2025
I love the smell of beef sushi in the morning – it smells like victory.
- Japan
- (beef • Ehomaki • food • gyukatsu • Gyukatsu Kyoto Katsugyu • Katsumaki • setsubun • sushi • sushi rolls)
American ehomaki? Searching for lucky Setsubun sushi rolls in the U.S.【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 5, 2024
Looking for a taste of home-away-from-home while back home.
We try Yoshinoya’s take on Setsubun ehomaki lucky sushi rolls with mixed results
- Krista Rogers
Feb 3, 2024
The verdict seems to be that you’re either going to roll with them…or not.
Which Japanese convenience store has the best lucky sushi roll? Unclear results show clear winner
- Casey Baseel
Feb 3, 2024
It’s 7-Eleven versus Family Mart versus Lawson in this ehomaki taste test showdown.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • COK • convenience stores • Ehomaki • Family mart • food • Lawson • setsubun • SNJO • sushi • taste test)
Can you make a proper ehomaki lucky sushi roll with Daiso equipment?
- Casey Baseel
Feb 2, 2024
We hit up Japan’s favorite 100 yen shop to see if we can be lucky on a budget.
- Japan
- (100 yen shops • 100-yen stores • COK • cooking • Daiso • Ehomaki • food • futomaki • setsubun • SNJO • sushi • sushi rolls)
Tokyo to be treated with too many tantalizing ehomaki sushi rolls this Setsubun
- Master Blaster
Feb 1, 2024
You name it, they got it rolled up in rice.
Pray for sound health for your beloved pets this Setsubun with special good luck sushi rolls just for them
- Dale Roll
Jan 29, 2024
Have your pet face east-northeast while eating these treats on February 3 and it’s sure to bring them good luck!
Dean & DeLuca now has fancy good luck sushi rolls to help Japan celebrate Setsubun【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 14, 2023
They’re almost too pretty to eat, but you’ll need to chow down if you want to get Japan’s most delicious traditional luck boost.
- Japan
- (COK • culture • Dean & DeLuca • Dean & DeLuca Japan • Ehomaki • food • setsubun • sushi • sushi rolls)
Lucky Chinese dumpling sushi rolls coming in February
- Master Blaster
Jan 13, 2023
Confused? You should be.
Foreign Lawson employees claim unfair treatment such as forced sushi and Christmas cake purchases
- Master Blaster
Aug 4, 2022
Ehomaki are great, but it’s important to buy them on our own terms.
- Japan, S Asia
- (Bangladesh. Sri Lanka • business • Christmas cake • convenience stores • Ehomaki • jibaku eigyo • labor laws • Lawson • Nepal • self-destruct sales)
Lucky sushi rolls coming to Kansai Aeon stores again for “Summer Setsubun”
- Master Blaster
Apr 15, 2022
It’s always lucky when ehomaki roll into town!
Cost of uneaten ehomaki sushi rolls in 2022 estimated to be over one billion yen
- Master Blaster
Feb 11, 2022
A brief lesson in eho-nomics.
- Japan
- (business • convenience stores • Ehomaki • environment • food waste • setsubun • supermarkets • sushi • sushi rolls)
Everyone in the office works together to make a “Dark Ehomaki Sushi Roll” for Setsubun
- Master Blaster
Feb 3, 2022
The office that makes sushi together, stays together.
- Japan
- (Dark Ehomaki • Ehomaki • experiments • food • holidays • setsubun • sushi • Yoshio)
Subway rivals a traditional Japanese sushi roll with its own traditional Japanese BLT
- Master Blaster
Jan 31, 2021
Jared out, luck in!
- Japan
- (eho-sub • Ehomaki • fast food • footlong sub • Japanese holidays • setsubun • Subway)
The greatest sushi roll in Japanese history is actually nine sushi rolls in one【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 29, 2020
Ehomaki sushi rolls are supposed to ensure good luck for the year, and it’s hard to think of having a luckier life than one that lets you eat this.
Japanese restaurant chain selling not just folded pizzas, but LUCKY folded pizzas!
- Master Blaster
Jan 29, 2020
All the things that make pizza great, only folded!
- Japan
- (COK • Eho Pizza • Ehomaki • food • Gusto • holidays • pizza • restaurants • Seiji Nakazawa • setsubun • SNJO • weird)
We summon the Devil’s “sushi roll” in Tokyo because we need to eat this 6,000-calorie thing
- Casey Baseel
Jan 27, 2019
Dark forces can’t intimidate us, or our stomachs.
- Japan
- (awesome • COK • crazy • Ehomaki • izakaya • restaurants • setsubun • SNOJ • sushi • sushi rolls • weird)
Japan’s crazy 6,000-calorie sushi roll includes a pizza as a topping
- Casey Baseel
Jan 23, 2019
We can feel ourselves getting both hungrier and heavier just looking at it.
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