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Studio Ghibli releases new onigiri rice ball-shaped lunch bag for Kiki’s...
Carry your lunch like a magical delivery from the famous anime movie. If you love Studio Ghibli as much as you love onigiri rice balls, then you’ll be happy to know that the studio is here to...
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Japan’s Tsukimi One-hand Bento’s name is all wrong, but it still looks...
Name could have used some more time in the kitchen, but we still want these in our stomach ASAP. Today we’re talking about some hearty fare, and it comes with an extra-large portion of linguistics to...
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Finally! Japan’s big three convenience store chains announce rice ball price...
After years of going up, onigiri prices are starting to come down. Onigiri (rice balls) used to be a Japanese convenience store item with no real downside. Tasty, filling, and healthier than just...
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Onidon opens in Tokyo with unique fusion tempura rice balls you won’t find...
Onigiri tendon looks set to become Japan’s newest viral food sensation. For lovers of “tendon” (tempura rice bowls), Tenya is a name that immediately springs to mind. Known for being cheap, tasty and...
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7-Eleven Japan debuts new black-and-white rice ball packaging…but is it...
Convenience store range strips everything back to basics, including the rice balls. Just last month, Calbee, Japan’s leading snack manufacturer, announced it would be switching to black-and-white...
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7-Eleven’s new green tea rice ball and sweets are only available in Japan’s...
And no, that’s not Kyoto. With green tea being the most culturally significant drink in Japan, and Kyoto being considered the heart of the country’s traditional culture, it’s easy to make the...
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A Japanese toast sandwich remix: The toasted rice rice ball[SoraKitchen]
Mr. Sato steps into the SoraKitchen with a bold idea. Food, as a broad topic, is pretty much always on our mind here at SoraNews24, but recently our ace reporter Mr. Sato found himself thinking about...
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7-Eleven Japan releases their second lineup of upsized foods from a muffin to...
As well as a double-sized cheesecake worth fighting battles over. The world may be subject to the annoyances of shrinkflation, but over the past few years, there’s been a running trend in Japan of...
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Japanese convenience store brings rice balls back to 100 yen – Is this deal...
As onigiri prices continue to rise everywhere else, Lawson Store 100 stays true to its name. There’s perhaps no better example of the frustrating inflation that’s taking place in Japan than what’s...
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As rumors swirl of 7-Eleven shorting customers on rice ball fillings, we...
Viral tweet claims have shoppers wondering if they’re paying premium-filling prices for almost-plain onigiri. Consumers in Japan have gotten a lot more cautious with their convenience store rice ball...
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Potama serves up epic rice balls like no other, and there’s only one store in...
Soul food from a tropical island, made fresh in the capital. Whenever we find ourselves in the vicinity of Tokyo Station, there’s one place we always visit, and its name is Potama. A cute...
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Which convenience store onigiri rice balls are the most popular? Survey...
There’s one rice ball that everyone chooses at Lawson, 7-Eleven, Mini Stop and Family Mart in Japan. If you were to step inside a Japanese convenience store and reach for a rice ball, which one would...
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Japanese drugstore sells onigiri at pre-stupid era prices, but how do they...
Taste-testing the time-trip rice balls of Welcia. Japanese convenience stores’ onigiri (rice balls) have become, to use the parlance of the economic scholarly community, stupidly expensive. Up until...
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Convenience store onigiri rice balls become even more expensive…but are they...
Join us as we explore the more expensive side of Japan’s rice ball spectrum. There was a time, just a few years ago, when convenience store onigiri rice balls were priced around the 100-yen (US$0.63)...
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7-Eleven now sells rice burgers in Japan, blurring the line between fast and...
Are these two new varieties good enough to take on the fast food game? 7-Eleven is currently bracing for the Japanese cold by upping its winter offerings, and its latest release, the Rice Burger,...
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7-Eleven Japan’s aged brown rice onigiri reveals a different side to...
If you’re worried about additives in convenience store food, this rice ball set is for you. When you eat out in Japan on a regular basis, you might find yourself looking for something lighter and...
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Japanese convenience store showdown: Who’s got the best red rice sekihan rice...
It’s a red-letter day for sekihan fans. With most onigiri/rice balls, it’s their fillings that differentiate them from each other. In the case of sekihan rice balls, though, it’s the rice itself that...
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Lawson now sells old rice as “vintage” onigiri in Japan
Emergency stockpiles are jazzed up as “vintage”, but are they more of a miss than a hit? There’s a severe shortage of rice in Japan at the moment, and the situation is so dire that the government...
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Do we say yay or nay to the additive-free rice balls that can last 100 days...
We try all five flavors of the “Hyakunigiri” Kyoto steak restaurant collaborative product to see if they’ll really rice up our lives. We’ve all been there–those nights when you forget to press the...
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Behold the Oniben, a new type of rice ball that’s part onigiri, part bento...
Traditional Japanese food gets a hybrid makeover. For years, an “onigiri” was an “onigiri”, in the sense that it looked pretty much the same wherever you went in Japan. However, in recent years,...
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