Onigiri are balls of rice covered with dried seaweed, and usually with something in the middle, such as a pickled plum, or a small chunk of cooked salmon or tuna. Onigiri are the most common lunch and snack food in Japan. They are very good! Most school children who bring their lunches to school bring onigiri, in the same way that many American schoolchildren bring sandwiches in their lunch boxes.
Several groups take turns making onigiri at the Franciscan Chapel Center each weekday for a special purpose.
Many hands make quick work and we make hundreds of onigiri in about an hour, while we chat away!
The next morning additional volunteers deliver the rice balls to a large group of homeless people living in a Tokyo park.
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| Several rice cookers stand ready with cooked rice. |
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| We use a bit of salty water to line the molds, and then fill them with the warm rice... |
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| And then insert a pickled plum |
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| And then package them up with a piece of seaweed |
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| Onigiri ready for delivery the next morning |
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