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Onigiri - The Japanese Rice Ball Snack
By Liam Conroy
It's 19:48, and I've just arrived back from the supermarket. I'm a bit peckish, but the missus doesn't want to eat yet. Luckily I picked myself up an onigiri, at the local supermarket. An onigiri, or filled rice ball, is roughly analogous to a sandwich in the UK. It is a triangle shaped lump of sticky rice, filled with a vast array of fillings, from tuna mayo (what I'm going to eat just now), through to umeboshi (a very tart, pickled plum), to prawn. Surrounding the rice ball is a sheet of nori (sheet seaweed, the type most typically associated with sushi). Read more
