About the heart-shaped sushi…Yes, when I was little, anything that was heart-shaped was something I liked. We also had a circle-shaped sushi mold, but we rarely used it.

I do not remember a time when we had sushi and didn’t also have miso soup. It’s kind of like a family tradition. We’d make (and eat) our sushi, as much as we’d want, and the miso soup would be cool by then. After we were done with our sushi we would slurp some soup, and then we’d be done!