Nice people = Rice people
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dorchadas
That was the slogan of the Thai restaurant I used to go to in Hiroshima City whose name I no longer remember and which Google can't find. Time marches on. 
Onigiri from Onigiri Shuttle Kokorin--in order from left to right: corn cheese pepper, negi miso, ume okaka cheese, salmon butter, and okaya shōyu--with homemade miso soup and 煎茶 sencha tea in the teapot that![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee bought me for my birthday last year.
Two weeks ago I heard that there was going to be an onigiri seller at the farmer's market. Last week I saw them there, and this week I immediately checked and went there straightaway. I stepped up and the man at the stall asked me if I knew what onigiri were, and when I said I used to live in Japan his eyes lit up and he asked me where. It turned out that he was from Ōsaka and was familiar with Hiroshima--he commented on how inaka Kitahiroshima was when I mentioned that's where I lived after he initially assumed I had gone to or taught at a Hiroshima university--and we bonded over how Carp fans are fanatics as he showed me the Carp hat that he had to blend in even though it's a Hanshin Tigers fan. In the end he gave me an extra onigiri on the house.
And so it is with a heavy heart that I report that while the onigiri set was good it's not worth the money. These five onigiri were small, maybe three inches across where an onigiri bought in a conbini would be four inches or even more, and bought individually they'd be $4 each! A conbini ongiri is like ¥100 at the most. I was talking with my Japanese tutor about these and we agreed that it was nice to be able to buy them but onigiri are easy to make at home with just some rice, filling, and salted water. Four dollars? Sure they were good, especially the salmon butter one, but.
On the other hand, checking the website they're offering an Okinawan summer bento with gōya chanpuru which is not something that restaurants around here typically offer. On the other other hand, it's forty-five dollars. Find that niche and fill it and you can charge a premium. And where am I going to get gōya chanpuru in this city? Just need some awamori to wash it down.
Blueberry peach pie from First Slice with store-bought ice cream. My old standard of a baked dessert with ice cream. Good, but I'm not sure how much peach was in it because I didn't really taste it. It just tasted like a blueberry pie.
All in all, a harder farmer's market dinner. Maybe next time I should make my own onigiri, though I can't get rice at the farmer's market so it wouldn't go in one of these posts. With Argyle so close I can source all the ingredients there and make them myself with pickles and miso on the side. That might be a good post.
Onigiri from Onigiri Shuttle Kokorin--in order from left to right: corn cheese pepper, negi miso, ume okaka cheese, salmon butter, and okaya shōyu--with homemade miso soup and 煎茶 sencha tea in the teapot that
sashagee bought me for my birthday last year.Two weeks ago I heard that there was going to be an onigiri seller at the farmer's market. Last week I saw them there, and this week I immediately checked and went there straightaway. I stepped up and the man at the stall asked me if I knew what onigiri were, and when I said I used to live in Japan his eyes lit up and he asked me where. It turned out that he was from Ōsaka and was familiar with Hiroshima--he commented on how inaka Kitahiroshima was when I mentioned that's where I lived after he initially assumed I had gone to or taught at a Hiroshima university--and we bonded over how Carp fans are fanatics as he showed me the Carp hat that he had to blend in even though it's a Hanshin Tigers fan. In the end he gave me an extra onigiri on the house.
And so it is with a heavy heart that I report that while the onigiri set was good it's not worth the money. These five onigiri were small, maybe three inches across where an onigiri bought in a conbini would be four inches or even more, and bought individually they'd be $4 each! A conbini ongiri is like ¥100 at the most. I was talking with my Japanese tutor about these and we agreed that it was nice to be able to buy them but onigiri are easy to make at home with just some rice, filling, and salted water. Four dollars? Sure they were good, especially the salmon butter one, but.
On the other hand, checking the website they're offering an Okinawan summer bento with gōya chanpuru which is not something that restaurants around here typically offer. On the other other hand, it's forty-five dollars. Find that niche and fill it and you can charge a premium. And where am I going to get gōya chanpuru in this city? Just need some awamori to wash it down.
Blueberry peach pie from First Slice with store-bought ice cream. My old standard of a baked dessert with ice cream. Good, but I'm not sure how much peach was in it because I didn't really taste it. It just tasted like a blueberry pie.
All in all, a harder farmer's market dinner. Maybe next time I should make my own onigiri, though I can't get rice at the farmer's market so it wouldn't go in one of these posts. With Argyle so close I can source all the ingredients there and make them myself with pickles and miso on the side. That might be a good post.
