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Do we say yay or nay to the additive-free rice balls that can last 100 days at room temperature?
- Krista Rogers
Jul 9, 2025 - Tweet
We try all five flavors of the “Hyakunigiri” Kyoto steak restaurant collaborative product to see if they’ll really rice up our lives.
- Japan
- (COK • disaster preparedness • emergency food • emergency rations • hyakunigiri • Hyakushokuya • Kyoto • onigiri • rice balls • SNJO • taste test)
Behold the Oniben, a new type of rice ball that’s part onigiri, part bento boxed meal
- Oona McGee
May 28, 2025
Traditional Japanese food gets a hybrid makeover.
- Japan
- (bento • COK • food • Hamamatsu • Japanese food • Kakegawa • Oniben • onigiri • rice balls • Shizuoka • Shizuoka Prefecture • SNJO • travel)
Made-to-order onigiri rice ball hotel breakfast buffet in Tokyo is open (and awesome) to all
- Casey Baseel
May 26, 2025
A handmade way to start the day in downtown Tokyo’s most traditional neighborhood.
- Japan
- (Asakusa • breakfast • buffet • COK • food • hotels • onigiri • restaurants • rice balls • SNJO • tourism • travel)
Rice ball melon bread – A treat Japanese bakeries aren’t crazy enough to make, but we are【SoraKitchen】
- Casey Baseel
May 14, 2025
Today in the SoraKitchen, we push the melon bread envelope with melon bread filled with onigiri, mochi, and even ramem.
- Japan
- (bread • COK • cooking • crazy • funny • melon bread • mochi • onigiri • ramen • rice balls • SNJO • SoraKitchen • sweets • taste test • warabimochi • weird)
Family Mart releases new rice balls with Bongo, Japan’s most famous onigiri restaurant
- Oona McGee
Mar 3, 2025
Shohei Ohtani is the ambassador for this new collaboration, and we’ve got the scoop on whether it’s worth spending money on.
- Japan
- (Bongo • COK • combini • convenience stores • Family mart • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • marketing • onigiri • P.K. Sanjun • rice balls • Seiji Nakazawa • Shohei Ohtani • SNJO • taste test)
Will frozen bento onigiri be Japan’s next big convenience store food trend?【Taste test】
- Elliot Hale
Feb 8, 2025
We try out three flavors to see if cramming an entire lunch into a rice ball is truly a genius idea or just another gimmick.
- Japan
- (bento onigiri • boxed lunches • COK • frozen food • obento • onigiri • rice balls • SNJO • taste test)
Our two-day struggle to buy the cutest onigiri rice balls in Tokyo
- Oona McGee
Jan 26, 2025
Norionigiri lands in Shibuya, but its beauty proves to be only skin-deep.
- Japan
- (character goods • COK • cute • food • Nandemo Ikimono • onigiri • review • rice balls • Shibuya • SNJO • taste test)
Cutest rice balls ever? Adorable new onigiri shop opening in downtown Tokyo【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 13, 2025
Norionigiri is setting up shop in Shibuya.
- Japan
- (character goods • COK • cute • food • Nandemo Ikimono • onigiri • rice balls • Shibuya)
What are Japan’s best, and most unique, regional rice balls?
- Casey Baseel
Nov 25, 2024
Onigiri survey gives us even more reasons to travel to every part of Japan.
Discovered: An even better way to open Japanese convenience store rice balls【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 4, 2024
Onigiri wrappers were secretly also onigiri holders this whole time.
- Japan
- (clever • COK • food • life hacks • Lifehacks • onigiri • rice balls • video • Zen-Noh)
Japanese convenience store chain releases new Immoral Konbini Food for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Oct 14, 2024
We try two of the unbelievable new offerings from Family Mart.
- Japan
- (COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • drinks • Family mart • food • Gonbei • konbini • omusubi • onigiri • restaurants • rice balls • SNJO • taste test)
Japanese convenience store releases a new bento sandwich, but is it better than a bento rice ball?
- Oona McGee
Oct 10, 2024
“Built-in” bentos are currently transforming the konbini food scene.
- Japan
- (bento • COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • food • Japanese sandwiches • konbini • Lawson • onigiri • restaurants • rice balls • sandwiches • SNJO • taste test)
This Tokyo rice ball takes 20 years to make and 2,000 yen (US$14.30) to buy, but is it worth it?
- SoraNews24
Oct 1, 2024
Taste-testing Manma’s premium onigiri in Shinjuku.
- Japan
- (Bongo • COK • expensive • expensive food • food • Manma • Miso • onigiri • rice balls • SNJO • taste test)
Are Family Mart’s new “exquisite” rice balls worth the high price tag?
- Oona McGee
Sep 18, 2024
Japanese convenience store chain teams up with esteemed restaurants for a new type of onigiri.
- Japan
- (COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • family restaurants • food • Japanese Restaurant • konbini • musubi • omusubi • onigiri • review • rice • rice balls • SNJO • taste test)
Japanese convenience store issues rice ball recall, foodies would’ve loved to eat them anyway
- Casey Baseel
Sep 12, 2024
Family Mart makes a mistake that still sounds so right (and delicious).
- Japan
- (convenience stores • Family mart • food • musubi • omusubi • onigiri • recall • rice • rice balls • sumeshi • sushi • vinegar • weird)
7-Eleven Japan wants to refocus on being affordable, will expand budget-friendly food line
- Casey Baseel
Sep 6, 2024
Ureshii Ne expansion is happy news for anyone who thinks convenience stores have gotten too expensive to be worth it.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • COK • convenience stores • food • onigiri • rice balls)
Japanese restaurant’s all-you-can-eat fried chicken breakfast is high-score challenge with prize
- Casey Baseel
Aug 26, 2024
Oh, and don’t forget the all-you-can-eat rice balls that come with it!
- Japan
- (all-you-can-eat • COK • crazy • food • fried chicken • karaage • onigiri • restaurants • rice balls)
How good is this popular wooden onigiri mould, made by a Japanese rice specialist?
- Oona McGee
Aug 22, 2024
We find out if this sell-out hit product is worth the hype.
- Japan
- (Akomeya • COK • food • Japanese food • onigiri • rice • rice balls • shopping • shops • SNJO • specialty products • taste test • wood)
7-Eleven Japan now has two tiers of salmon rice balls, but is the new, cheaper one any good?【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 28, 2024
It’s salmon vs. salmon as we taste-test 7-Eleven’s attempt to stem the tide of rampant combini onigiri price inflations.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • COK • onigiri • rice balls • salmon • SNJO • taste test)
My Neighbor Onigiri-kun – Ghibli’s Toshio Suzuki draws character for rice ball salt packaging
- Casey Baseel
Jun 21, 2024
Veteran anime producer helps spread love for Yamaguchi salt.
- Japan
- (anime • art • food • manga • onigiri • rice balls • Studio Ghibli • Toshio Suzuki)
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