That, of course, changed too. It became popular to wear bento boxes around the waist containing onigiri (rice balls), known as koshi-bento. Slightly more substantial boxes also appeared ...

Loved by Japanese schoolchildren and a staple at convenience stores like 7-Eleven, onigiri are tender, slightly sticky rice ...

Place onigiri in the center of a piece of nori seaweed ... She spent two years studying baking in Paris and began making bento around 2016 during her seven-year stay in India.

The Bay Area sando debuts come as interest in konbini — Japanese convenience stores, which usually offer prepared foods like onigiri, bento boxes, sandos, sushi, and more, (arguably a step above ...

During its tenure, Famima sold items including onigiri, fried chicken, steamed pork buns, and pre-packaged bento boxes. The company couldn’t make it last, though, with all Famima locations ...

There’s the well-loved Parami on Alberta Street, plus Domo 39 – with its onigiri, bento boxes and soft-serve – which opened in April in St Peters and does a smashing trade. During Mogu Mogu’s first ...

Young-gun chef Dennis Yong (ex-Parcs) is on board to help bring creative flourishes to the menu, which will star grab-and-go onigiri and bento boxes. No country does convenience stores quite like ...

The onigiri is often dismissed as a quick grab ... or enjoy them as part of a cute bento lunch box. Taro Tokyo has tested over 20 varieties of rice from all over Japan and more than 30 kinds ...

Onigiri snacks, plumpy tomatoes, and adorable octopus sausages - you’ll be able to pack these and so many more into your bento. They’re all in a cute visual style, too - hopefully, no one will ...

which will lean on classic konbini snacks like bento, onigiri, sandos and nikuman (steamed buns filled with chashu pork or shiitake mushroom). Yong, who also runs sustainably focused fermentation ...