In Japan, there are many convenience stores like 7-Eleven. This time, I will explain how to eat onigiri, which is sold in convenience stores and supermarkets.
Onigiri is a traditional Japanese handmade lunch or snack. It is primarily made by shaping white rice into a triangle, circle, or cylinder, and it can contain various fillings such as pickled plum, salmon, tuna mayonnaise, and spicy cod roe. The outside of the onigiri is typically wrapped in nori (dried seaweed sheet) to prevent the rice from sticking to the hands when carrying or eating.
This time, I will be eating an onigiri purchased from a convenience store that contains spicy seasoned fish roe. The shape of the onigiri is the traditional triangle that has been sold for a long time.
In most cases, the packaging of triangular onigiri has the order in which to open it written on it. The onigiri we are eating this time also has numbers 1 to 3 written on it.
Let's promptly open the onigiri in the order specified.
Grab the part labeled 1 and cut the film downwards. Cut through the bottom of the onigiri all the way to the back.
Next, pull the part labeled 2 and slowly remove the film that is between the rice and the nori sheet.
You can remove the film in this manner.
Similarly, pull the part labeled 3 on the opposite side and remove the film. The onigiri is complete with the rice wrapped in the nori sheet.
When you take a bite, spicy fish roe comes out from the inside. This time, I explained the most common way to open onigiri, but there are other shapes of onigiri available for sale. I will introduce them on another occasion.
