Onigiri is a beloved snack for many Japanese and Japanophiles. It is essentially a piece of compressed rice, its name originating from the Japanese word "nigiru", which means "to grasp" or "to squeeze ...

Rice & Nori is a fast-casual restaurant located in Little Tokyo and serves a variety of sushi, onigiri and hand-rolls. They offer various fillings to choose from when building an onigiri. (Jason Pham ...

Onigiri is about eating rice. The filling is the added bonus, to give the otherwise plain rice some flavor and punch. Here onigiri gets some oomph from the smoke and char of the grill (or grill pan) ...

When I was growing up in Tokyo in the ‘60s, we had bento day at school once a week. This meant Mother had to get up early and fix lunch for her five children. We were proud of her bento, which might ...