How to eat an Onigiri...
 

One of the most facinating thing we found in Japan, are these individually wrapped Onigiri (rice balls)

Everyone knows that seaweed gets soggy if u leave it with the cooked rice, so how do they keep it fresh?!

http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/p.../Onigiri01.jpg

Peel the wrapping down the middle, starting from the top...
http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/p.../Onigiri02.jpg

...all the way around to the back.
http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/p.../Onigiri03.jpg

Pull out the plastic on the right.
http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/p.../Onigiri04.jpg

Then pull out the plastic on the left.
http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/p.../Onigiri05.jpg

Ta-Da! You've got a fresh tasty onigiri, without soggy seaweed. The plastic is packed so that the seaweed has no direct contact with the rice.
http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/p.../Onigiri06.jpg

I thought that was ingenious!

Nifty o: I've never had onigiri with rice all around it. But I could see that being convenient, it sucks when it starts falling apart x.x

Just for the record, I have no clue about the possible interactions of seaweed and rice.

LOL The wetness from the rice could make seaweed chewy and soggy (it's meant to be crispy)

so u know ur sushi isnt fresh when u have trouble biting ur seaweed of ur roll.

And u can get these onigiri from 7eleven, so they sit on the fridge all day...



arent all onigiri have rice all around some fillings? and a piece of seaweed?

I used to have severe difficulties opening that thing... gawd.

LOL apparently we had a friend who said "he knows wat he's doing"...

and opened that up without using the steps, and had rice in 1 hand and seaweed on the other hand LOL

(we were lucky enough to be taught by a friend on the first morning that we arrived so we didnt have any disasters LOL)


and it didnt fall apart... the big piece of seaweed acted as a bowl

^what he said

oh... i just said "everyone" casually LOL