{"id":66985,"date":"2024-09-27T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/27\/japan-onigiri-rice-boom"},"modified":"2024-09-27T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T11:00:11","slug":"japans-humble-onigiri-takes-over-lunchtimes-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66985","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s humble onigiri takes over lunchtimes around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n<p>It is barely 10am and the queue outside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onigiribongo.info\/\">Onigiri Bongo<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always like this,\u201d says Yumiko Ukon, who has run this modest rice ball shop and restaurant in the Otsuka neighbourhood of Tokyo for almost half a century. \u201cBut we never run out of rice,\u201d she adds, seated in her office near a wall clock in the shape of a rice ball with a bite taken out.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/27\/japan-onigiri-rice-boom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades nori-wrapped rice dish was mainly a snack eaten at home or in a bento, but now it has come into its ownIt 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 s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,311,526,88,1046,1482,2257,355,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-food","category-france","category-japan","category-japanese-food-and-drink","category-paris","category-rice","category-sydney","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66986,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66985\/revisions\/66986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}