I’ve been packing school lunches for 10 years, since my daughter started kindergarten. Early on, I found an online community of bloggers who wrote about how to create bento — the name for a ...

TOKYO (AP) — Onigiri is a ball of rice with something inside, similar to how two slices of bread with something in between makes a sandwich. In the same way that just about every American has made and ...

With the Japanese Yen at an all-time low and increased inflation numbers pinching pocketbooks, Japanese companies have been eager for any form of reprieve. A recent upswing in rice export prices has ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — The word “onigiri” became part of the Oxford English Dictionary this year, proof that the humble sticky-rice ball and mainstay of Japanese food has entered the global lexicon. The rice ...

Join two friends as they try seaweed for the first time and explore creative food pairings! Watch their genuine reactions as ...

Chicken Onigiri is a Japanese rice ball dish where ground chicken’s sweet and savory flavors meet the simplicity of freshly cooked Japanese rice. This seasoned chicken is expertly mixed with the rice, ...

Miki Yamada prepares onigiri rice balls for her catering business at home in Tokyo - Copyright AFP Richard A. Brooks Miki Yamada prepares onigiri rice balls for her ...

If you aren’t already rinsing rice before you cook it, it’s not too late to start. Famed chef Masaharu Morimoto includes his recipe for perfect white rice in his new book, “Mastering the Art of ...

The Little Collins Street cafe specialises in rice balls filled with cheese-and-chilli stew, plus buttery matcha and hojicha.