With the pandemic, our lives have changed dramatically. People are required to stay at home. If they need to go out, they need to be a few meters away from each other. They can’t even go out to eat in their favorite restaurants.

An Australian mother came up with a clever way to recreate the same dining experience she used to enjoy in her favorite restaurant.

Katherine Bowman, a 29-year-old freelance writer and mother of three, took her kids’ train set and recreated the Sushi Train. It’s a well-known chain of delicious Japanese Sushi bars that go around dining tables through a rotating conveyor belt.

Katherine did an excellent job.

Apart from setting the track perfectly, she also made sure that all the elements were present. She picked the right plates and filled them with her own homemade sushi recipes.

Her kids were beyond ecstatic.

Katherine wasn’t just able to recreate the experience but she made mealtime a lot more fun, too. Her daughter Sienna was super happy when she saw the track.

Katherine shared:

“She was so excited! Even her two-year-old twin sisters were excited. They all wowed at it and jumped straight up onto their chairs for dinner. We no longer live near a sushi train, but any chance she has, she chooses sushi, and if we are away from home and there’s a sushi train, she gets really excited to go there.”

It’s hard not to get bored when one’s on quarantine so it’s good that Katherine was able to make things fun for the family.

“I don’t normally go to this extreme for dinner. This was just a special bit of fun because we’re all starting to get a bit bored at home,”- she said.

After sharing her idea on social media, a lot of people followed her lead and made their own sushi trains.

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One of them was Vicki Thomas.

She used her kids’ Aldi train set and ordered takeaway sushi rolls, lettuce wraps, and sashimi. She placed them on baskets which she put on top of the train set.

And to make the presentation even more entertaining, she placed a huge palm tree in the middle of the table. It certainly made the family’s DIY sushi train more unique.

Other people’s sushi trains vary in size and concept. Some are simple while others are more elaborate.

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There are families who used a huge variety of tasty treats. Apart from sushi rolls and sashimi, they also added gyoza dumplings, carrot sticks, and cucumber sticks.

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About the Sushi Train

The sushi train is also known as the conveyor belt sushi or rotation sushi. Apart from Australia, it’s also common in Japan.

In sushi restaurants that offer this service, plates with sushi are carefully placed on a conveyor belt. It winds through the place and moves past each table.

The sushi train isn’t limited to sushi. There’s also the option to order fruits, drinks, soups, and other foods. If one can’t find the sushi he wants, he can call the attention of the attendant and make special orders. In most restaurants, there are speakerphones which can be used for this purpose. Others have touch screen displays for special orders.

For billing and payment, there’s usually an attendant who’ll count the plates. Other restaurants have counting machines.

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Source: Daily Mail, Tyla