When I was growing up in Tokyo in the ‘60s, we had bento day at school once a week. This meant mother had to get up early and fix lunch for her five children. We were proud of her bento, which might ...

Onigiri--perhaps the most popular food in Japan after the hamburger--go back more than a millennium but are as contemporary as Pokemon. They’re often called rice balls in English, but that hardly ...

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TOKYO — The world's great cuisines can regale the eye and the palate. Or, alternatively, they may celebrate the plain and exalt the humble — for example, by recreating home-style comfort food in a ...

I ate at Onigiri Asakusa Yadoroku, a Tokyo restaurant with a Michelin Bib Gourmand Award. There was a 1.5-hour wait, but the food was worth the wait. Plus, my three-course meal cost just $6.50. I was ...

“Hell yes! Mayor London Breed partnered with 7-Eleven on a new initiative to bring Japanese onigiri to convenience stores in San Francisco,” reads a thread from a user who posts under the name ...

Cathy Chaplin is a former senior editor at Eater LA, a James Beard Award–nominated journalist, and the author of Food Lovers’ Guide to Los Angeles. Onigiri, a Japanese staple of hand-packed rice ...

Rice & Nori is a fast-casual restaurant located in Little Tokyo and serves a variety of sushi, onigiri and hand-rolls. They offer various fillings to choose from when building an onigiri. (Jason Pham ...

Onigiri Shuttle Kororin's corn-cheese-pepper onigiri is a localized spin on a Japanese staple. Credit: Courtesy Yuta Katsuyama When Yuta Katsuyama landed at the Illinois Institute of Technology four ...