Although rice vinegar was used in the recipe, cereal vinegar will work fine as well. The seven-flavor chili pepper (“shichimi-togarashi”) or Japanese pepper (“sansho”) powder will ...

60 grams boiled octopus, 1 cucumber, 1/2 piece ginger (a piece is about half the size of a thumb), 1/4 tsp salt For “sanbaizu” (Amount for 3 to 4 occasions): 100 ml vinegar (preferably cereal ...