Onigiri (Rice Balls)

Some useful  manners about eating rice in Japan.

• You must hold your rice bowl with your hand while eating from it.
• It is considered as a polite manner to finish every single grain of rice in a bowl as a way of appreciating rice farmers.
• Never leave your chopsticks standing up vertically in your rice – it’s used for funerals (resembles burning incense).

Ingredients

• Cooked Japanese rice [We do not use vinegared sushi rice!] (2 rice cooker measuring cups (360ml) of uncooked rice)
• Water
• Salt
• A few sheets of nori (seaweed)

Fillings (Anything you like to put)

• Salted salmon
• Umeboshi (Japanese salty pickled plum)
• Katsuobushi (bonito flakes)
• Soy sauce

Things you need

• Wet towel to wipe your hands

http://www.justonecookbook.com/onigiri-rice-balls/