For decades nori-wrapped rice dish was mainly a snack eaten at home or in a bento, but now it has come into its own
It is barely 10am and the queue outside Onigiri Bongo already stretches around the block. Some of the 30 or so early-bird diners sit on stools, sipping green tea and poring over laminated menus. Further back it is standing-room only.
“It’s always like this,” says Yumiko Ukon, who has run this modest rice ball shop and restaurant in the Otsuka neighbourhood of Tokyo for almost half a century. “But we never run out of rice,” she adds, seated in her office near a wall clock in the shape of a rice ball with a bite taken out.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/japan-onigiri-rice-boom
Author : Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Publish date : 2024-09-27 11:00:11
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