Photo by Aubrie Pick
Before heading into work in Tokyo, I often stopped at a little stand where an elderly woman sold nothing but rice balls. Onigiri is a quintessential Japanese food: made by moms for breakfast, lunch boxes, and picnics. It is the ideal handheld food (the nori wrapper keeps the sticky rice from getting all over your hand).
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Experiment with fillings. Try tempura shrimp, chicken salad, codfish roe, Japanese pickles, tunafish with mayo, or cooked and crumbled tsukune.
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