Check this out for some ideas:

www.bigairplane.com/vegetari...cipes.htm

Jeffz, you are quite welcome! I recall doing a sushi party where my guests hand-rolled their own rolls. Because some of them had never done it before, some rolls turned out pretty crappy. --There is a certain technique to creating maki-- But they were still delicious none-the-less and everyone had fun.

By the way, since you are doing sushi, you'll probably be thinking of dipping sauces. Of course you probably already have soy sauce on your shopping list. Buyer beware:

Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Chinese company makes soy sauce from human hair
A resourceful Chinese company got in trouble for brewing soy sauce out of human hair.
China Central Television (CCTV), the state television station, first raised public worries over the quality of domestic soy sauce by uncovering a substandard workshop in central China's Hubei Province, where piles of waste human hair were found. The hairs were treated in special containers to distill amino acid, the most common substance contained in soybean sauce.
Human hair is rich in protein content, just like soybean, wheat and bran, the conventional and legally accepted raw ingredients for the production of soy sauce.
www.boingboing.net/2004/05/...make.html

But that's just one food company. I doubt if other major soy sauce companies practice this, um, "resourceful" technique. As far as I know, most (Japanese) soy sauce is vegan-friendly made with just soy beans, grains, water, and sometimes salt and alcohol. I HAVE FOUND that a lot of imported products will have fish or meat products in it, even though it does not specifically say that on the ingredients list. You know, the US gov't requires that all imported foods list the ingredients and nutritional values and fat contents, just like we are used to seeing on the backs of any packaged domestic foods. Sometimes though, either the translator is being lazy or something gets overlooked, and they neglect to translate that there is some animal (bi)product in the foods. You just have to be careful and maybe ask one of the friendly employees of your favorite specialty/imported foods store to help you with the language(s).

Shoot. I had this one great spicy mayo sauce at a local Japanese restaurant in downtown LA. I don't have a recipe for it, but I'm sure it can be recreated with vegan ingredients. If someone has a spicy vegan mayo sauce recipe, I'd be very thankful!

PS. DON'T FORGET THE WASABI!!

anytime manu. you provide the lively conversation and i will supply the sushi.