,Can i ask is Japanese Rice different from normal rice? like rice in the philiphines or US?:)

USA/THAI/PHILLIPINES rice is LONG GRAIN and have less sugar in them
Japanese rice is SHORT GRAIN and is usually fatter and stickier. ^^

how do u ppl read those square thingys they look the same 2 me

As xYinniex said, Japanese rice is short grain. I use calrose rice, as that's easily available here in Canada. It was also recommended by a Japanese lady who makes the sushi for a supermarket here.

I wet my hands with water with a little rice vinegar (the straight stuff, not the ready-prepared sushi mixture with sugar and salt) added to stop the rice sticking to my hands too much.

What have you try putting in your Onigiri?
 

I've been using the "standard traditional" ingredients like Tuna, Salmon, eel, ume

What else hve everyone tried?

yeah me too - I've just had the normal ones
my favourite is tsuna mayo

mmm
mentaiko [cod roe] onigiri x]

Yakiniku!!!!
 

Hi I always eat onigiri as a lunch and once I've eaten Yakiniku onigiri in Korea:)IT WAS GREAT!

Grilled slices of SPAM pork luncheon meat. I like that for a change once in a while.

Hmm, thats an interesting ingredient.... interesting enought that I will probably try that next :)

Anything else?

How Do you Make Onigiri?
 

I've always seen the treat, but I've never tried it.
I'm wondering how you make it. I know with rice.
If someone could tell me how to make onigiri, it'd be much appreciated

I've never made the stuff myself, but try this


How to Make Onigiri - wikiHow

Ah, thanks so much!

if you look in some places, they sell onigiri makers .. like a triangle shaped thing that you put rice in, then press it down with the top. it's like an onigiri cookie cutter. it's what i use because i absolutely suck at trying to make them by hand >_< idk where though because i think my grandparents sent it to us from japan but if you look in asian stores or something you'd probably find it.

Ooh, I'll have to look somewhere then. Thanks.
:P I want to attempt at shaping one by hand. If I fail, I shall go in search of the "onigiri cookie cutter"

I tried fried tofu, which I rinsed, fried with some carrot, and then added a mixture of rice vinegar, shoyu, sake and sugar to the pan and cooked it for a coupel of minutes till the liquid evaporated. That then went in to onigiri. They were not pretty, owing to my incompetence in making onigiri, but they tasted pretty good! :)

is that like the kind of dry-textured pork? cuz that's my favorite C:

Yeah, it's the kind that comes in cans.

The other day I made some with oshinko and it was a nice finish to lunch. And it kept me from munching on way too much oshinko like when I keep a container of it the office fridge.

i'm boring, so i use umeboshi. :] i don't like when there's a mixture of stuff in there or something. ><

I eat Spam Musubi's(Local Hawaii food). Much better then Onigiri's.

Canned tuna and spinach or greens onigiris

That's not boring, that's my favorite.:vsign:

trying adding a shiso leaf in there
for a bit of a basilish minty flavour x]

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oh and i've yet too find a filling that i prefer over umeboshi o.O" fyi
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some stuff I've found I liked
 

I've also been using mainly salmon with sea salt, it turned out very good. Another one I tried that I really loved was vanilla yogurt, grapes/apples, and walnuts. It's very sweet and makes a good desert or breakfast.

~Tokyo

hmm o.o'
sounds pretty good as stuffing for a crepe

My grandma used to make me Onigiri. But I don't like Onigiri. I like Spam Musubi, brah.

I've seen it in Sanko (on Queen Street in Toronto), which is a useful, if rather over-priced Japanese grocer. There must be other places in Toronto. There is also, I understand, a big Japanese area in Scarborough, but that's a bit far for me, so I've not actually been yet.

warm scallops, and crab :]

also shrimp is pretty good.

you said it ...yummmm

i made Onigiri two days ago and i put steamed carrots and steamed salmon in them. it was very good.

I'm missing out I guess.

I've never had one.

I wouldn't want one with filling... I hate any kind of filling type smooth creamy type stuff 0_0 Ugh ugh ;_; Like mayonnaise or anything like that 0_0 buhh ;_;

So, the same as the poster above really, I'd wanna make riceballs :p

Boiled nori, miso paste/soy sauce (you need to cook it in a pan), and tuna.

nori comes in a small black jar and it has these kids on it... it's awesome, or try furikake

Nori...in a jar? I've seen it in bags but not in jars. You mean the boiled nori?