Her gu gets adventurous. Cream cheese is mixed with a pungent Japanese pickle called “iburigakko,” for instance, and each onigiri costs 250 yen ($1.60). Spam and egg onigiri costs 300 yen ($1. ...

and “dashitama mentai” (dashi rolled egg with spicy pollack roe). But upon further research, I realized that our ancestors had even better ideas. A book by Kikuko Oda, titled “Onigiri ni ...

Onigiri is more of a casual ... mostly because the toppings can include ingredients such as Spam (popular in Hawaii), eggs, and furikake. For nigiri, you'll want to go to your local fish market ...

Usually rice balls can be purchased individually in Japan, but Norionigiriya-san sells theirs in sets of two. You pick one onigiri from group A (plain, bonito flake, plum, tuna with mayo, or ...