What is Chicken Onigiri? Chicken Onigiri is a Japanese rice ball dish where ground chicken’s sweet and savory flavors meet ...

This easy Japanese Chicken Onigiri recipe shows you how to make perfectly shaped rice balls filled with savory chicken. Great ...

A Japanese restaurateur celebrates the homely rice ball by turning it into a gourmet treat so enticing that people stand in line for hours just to taste one. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: ...

1 ½ cup Japanese rice, cooked to fluffiness Three umeboshi salted Japanese plums (available at Asian food stores; for smaller umeboshi, use one for each rice ball) Two sheets of dried nori seaweed ...

Shake rice in colander to remove excess water, then pour into a small donabe rice pot or medium saucepan. Add cold filtered water, stir once with your fingers; let soak 30 minutes.

Miyuki Kawarada (shown in 2023) is the president of Taro Tokyo Onigiri, a shop specializing in Japanese rice balls, known as “onigiri”, with trendy fillings and toppings.

Anastasia Bucsis may be a two-time Olympian, but there's one physical feat that didn't come easily to her: the art of opening a Japanese rice ball (aka onigiri). The former Olympian-turned ...

The rice balls are often served in a set, including pickles and miso soup. A weekday meal set with two onigiri and tofu soup goes for for 800 yen, about $5.98 — in Tokyo, a very affordable lunch.

Three umeboshi salted Japanese plums (available at Asian food stores; for smaller umeboshi, use one for each rice ball) A rice ball is made in Tokyo, on June 14, 2024. Credit: AP/Yuri Kageyama ...

A Japanese restaurateur elevates the plain and homely rice ball, or onigiri, into gourmet fare at a Tokyo restaurant where people line up for hours to get one of nine seats.

1 ½ cup Japanese rice, cooked to fluffiness Three umeboshi salted Japanese plums (available at Asian food stores; for smaller umeboshi, use one for each rice ball) Two sheets of dried nori seaweed ...