Lawson Inc. will begin selling “Vintage Rice Onigiri” made from rice harvested in 2023 at lower prices than its usual onigiri, the company announced on June 3. The convenience store chain has procured ...

The humble rice ball, eaten in Japan for thousands of years, is seemingly more popular now than ever, with specialty shops opening in succession and billions sold at convenience stores every year.

Onigiri is about eating rice. The filling is the added bonus, to give the otherwise plain rice some flavor and punch. Here onigiri gets some oomph from the smoke and char of the grill (or grill pan) ...

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 ...

CHICAGO -- Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, Yuta Katsuyama came to the United States as a graduate student in 2018 to study business and design at Illinois Institute of Technology on Chicago's ...

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, ...

Easily transportable and infinitely adaptable, Japanese rice balls or onigiri are an ideal snack. They’re sold in convenience stores across Japan and in Japanese grocery stores around the US, but you ...

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 ...