Nakayama uses a 50-50 blend of premium Japanese koshihikari rice and California short-grain rice. Both are pricier than supermarket rice, but she strongly suggests seeking out the very best rice ...

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.

Onigiri is a ball of rice with something inside, ... or Japanese rice balls, with salted plums. This photo shows the ingredients to make onigiri easily, in Tokyo, on June 14, 2024.

Onigiri Bongo has served the humble onigiri, or rice ball, for 60 years. The current owner is the widow of the original owner, whom she married after discovering the restaurant as a newcomer to Tokyo.

TOKYO — The word “onigiri” became part of the Oxford English Dictionary this year, proof that the humble sticky-rice ball and mainstay of Japanese food has entered the global lexicon.

To the uninitiated, onigiri are rice balls, or more commonly rice triangles, stuffed with various fillings—including salmon, cod roe, tuna and mayonnaise, and Japanese sour plums called umeboshi ...

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 ...

Tuna Onigiri are simple rice balls with a special place in Japanese cuisine. Today, we're making a classic: tuna mayo onigiri. These creamy, savory rice balls are wrapped in a crisp sheet of nori ...

A Tokyo correspondent for The Associated Press is sharing her basic onigiri recipe. It uses umeboshi (salted Japanese plums), but what you put inside can be just about anything — fish, meat ...