"Onigiri" news and stories

For your lunchtime pleasure, I'm presenting a series of my favorite bento boxes. Bento are Japanese home-prepared meals served in special boxes, usually eaten for lunch at work or school. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

Today's bento makes the most of food coloring, with yellow, blue, pink and purple letter mini-onigiri stuffed with tuna and shaped like letter blocks. Letter details are cheese. The teddy is stuffed with tuna, wasabi and mayo, with nori and cheese details. The box is filled out with broccoli and shumai dumplings.

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For your lunchtime pleasure, I'm presenting a series of my favorite bento boxes. Bento are Japanese home-prepared meals served in special boxes, usually eaten for lunch at work or school. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

This very cool ghost bento comes from the nifty Zakka Life blog. The two happy onigiri ghosts sit atop a (pork or beef slice?) cliff as nori bats flap their wings across a lemon moon. The tiny bottle of skull-and-bones "soy poison" is my favorite touch.

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Having been with Slashfood a few days now, it is time for me to tell you about my favorite food: The onigiri.

I shall preface this by saying I am not Japanese, nor have I been anywhere in Japan other than the Tokyo airport. I have discovered and fallen in love with the onigiri in New York City alone. Let no ocean put us asunder.

The onigiri is like a rice and fish sandwich. There's fish or fish eggs, seaweed, what-have-you in the middle, packed in compacted rice and then wrapped in a handy piece of seaweed (for holding). I recommend the onigiri from JAS Mart in New York. I tried several from Sunrise Mart on Broome Street, but I always found bones in the salmon. Um...no thanks.

They are delicious, convenient, and cheap, we're talkin' like under $2 in New York City. Onigiri are the ideal thing to pick up on-the go, like a power bar for someone who prefers actual food to a science experiment wrapped in chocolate.

Eat your heart out, Earl of Sandwich. Can't find them in your town? For a great recipe (with pictures), click here!

For your lunchtime pleasure, I'm presenting a series of my favorite bento boxes. Bento are Japanese home-prepared meals served in special boxes, usually eaten for lunch at work or school. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

Technically a dinner, not a lunch, Sibi's elegant bento shows there's no reason dinner for one has to mean leaning over the sink with a bowl of Ramen. There's a luscious-looking piece of teriyaki salmon with sauteed bell peppers, shallots and onions, along with cream cheese-filled peppadews, a rectangle of Appenzeller cheese and ham mousse and furikake (Japanese rice seasoning) onigiri.

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Anime, Japanese-style animation, has become increasingly popular over the years. I remember watching bootleg copies of Dragon Ball Z movies with my friends in high school. A couple years later I was delighted to see whole (albeit small) sections of anime at video stores like Suncoast. I was pleasantly surprised, and very amused, to find this list of the top eight foods in anime from Cosplay Classes.

1 Number one is ramen. I guess it's iconic to show characters slurping up the noodles.
2. Sushi, the quintessntial Japanese food.
3. Dessert is probably more prevalent in shows geared toward women.
4. Curry sure has made it's mark.
5. I had no idea pasta was so popular.
6. Apparently hamburgers are getting a lot of screen time.
7. The Japanese hot pot is a derivation of a Chinese dish.
8. Onigiri are simple to make and all kinds of anime characters put it in their bento boxes.