Home Sushi Party Menu Plan and Shopping List

The easiest home sushi party is a temaki (hand roll) party: you cook the rice, lay out fillings and everyone rolls their own. Add a store-bought platter and a few sides, and you can feed 6–8 people with minimal stress.

Party for 6. Rice: 3 rice-cooker cups (540ml) raw, seasoned. Nori: 20–30 half sheets. Fish: two 6-kind sashimi platters or about 600g sashimi. Cooked fillings: prawns, tamago, crab, unagi. Veg: cucumber, avocado, shiso. Allow: 4–6 hand rolls per person.

Menu

Starter: edamame and miso soup. Main: temaki bar with raw and cooked fillings. Backup: a ready-made sushi platter — Sushi Express's 30-piece Party Box is about HKD 190–198. Sides: seaweed salad, karaage. Dessert: mochi or fruit.

Shopping list

Rice and seasoning: Japanese short-grain rice, rice vinegar, sugar, salt (or sushi vinegar). Wraps: yaki-nori. Fish: sashimi platters — Sushiro's 6-kind platter is HKD 106 — or fish by weight from a premium deli. Cooked: boiled prawns, tamago, crab sticks, unagi. Veg: cucumber, avocado, shiso, scallion, pickled radish. Condiments: soy sauce (plus gluten-free tamari if needed), wasabi, gari, Japanese mayo, sesame.

Timeline

Day before: shop for dry goods and buy rice. Two hours before: cook and season rice. One hour before: cut vegetables, make tamago, prepare cooked fillings. Last: collect sashimi and keep it in the fridge until guests sit down.

Put fish on ice. Set sashimi on a tray over ice and bring it out in small batches.

Guests with dietary needs: label a cooked-only plate for children and pregnant guests, and keep shellfish separate. See sushi without raw fish.

Two-hour rule. Throw away sashimi left out for more than about two hours. See how to store sushi safely.

Common questions

How much sushi rice for 6 people?

About 3 rice-cooker cups raw.

What is the easiest sushi party?

A temaki hand-roll bar.

Where else can I look?

See how to make hand rolls.

Compiled by our editorial team from established Japanese culinary references, food safety guidance and Hong Kong restaurant and retailer information, retrieved September 2026. General information only. No brand or retailer paid for inclusion.