Hey guys! This is my new friend Anisha!
She has a channel called Rickshawali
I will link it down below so go check her out, she's really funny and awesome!!
And she's here in Japan, for the first time
We had lots of fun in Harajuku earlier
And she hasn't really tried much Japanese food, right?
No
How long have you been here?
About 9 days
9 days, okay
Have you seen an onigiri before?
Is that the rice thing?
Yep it's a rice ball
I guess the English would be rice ball, even though it's not a ball
Why is it called a ball?
It's not a ball, it's a rice triangle
Well that's interesting
Now, do you know how to open this?
I will just do it, I will just do it
NO STOP IT NO
There's a certain way to do it
So if you look at the package, there's a number 1 up at the top here
This? It's written in Japanese how am I supposed to read that
Right there right there, the number 1
Haha I'm like "I can't read Japanese!"
Just ignore the letters
So pull the #1 down like this
Oh wow!!
And make sure you do it nicely so it goes all the way to the back
Omg this is so cool!
Pull it all the way back? Okay
Yeah you're doing good!
That's so convenient!
And then you've got two corners left
So take the #2 on this side
and just pull it off
Oh god that's literally like magic
Niiiice
That's awesome wow!
And the other side
Okay
There you go!
Hey that's cool!
So the point of the package is so that it keeps the seaweed separate from the rice
So that the seaweed doesn't get mushy
NO WAY.
So now you've got a fresh dry piece of seaweed on the rice
So now you can kind of like curve it around and cover it up
Wow that is so smart
So you can get all different kinds of fillings in onigiri
This is the most typical one, it's called "tsuna mayo"
tsuna mayo
Yeah so its tuna and mayonnaise
In there!?
Yeah
Ooo....
I've never had tuna and mayonnaise
Really!?
Because I'm hungry...
We're so hungry right now
Very hungry, we haven't eaten the entire day
Since breakfast
Is this like the best thing you've ever had?
SO GOOD.
No... Well...
I have to say, I'm not a seaweed person
Right
Cuz it has a little fishy taste
It tastes very simple, I can't taste it
If you get to the middle, there'll be more tuna
It's not very flavourful
Yeah, that's why I like the tuna one because it's really subtle
Like if you're new to onigiri, and you're kinda worried and don't want a super fishy one
I'd say go for the tuna mayo
It's a flavour that Americans would be used to
I'm from India where we have crazy spices, everything is spicy
it has amazing, not amazing, but like crazy explosions of flavours
So this is like really subtle to you?
So this is like, whoa where is the flavour
I'm half, well not half but
I grew up in Germany and I'm living in India now
So I have the understanding of flavours like this
But from an Indian point of view this is like, where is the flavour??
It has no flavour in it
But it's actually nice
I feel with Japanese food there's a combination
There's really subtle stuff like onigiri, and then sometimes you'll get really salty stuff
Which actually we're gonna try next
So maybe you'll wanna save some of your onigiri
Oh is it?
You're gonna want something to eat with this I think
What is that? I just read Family Mart
All of these things I bought from Family Mart
Family Mart is the name of the convenience store
What...
Oh my goodness
Do you know what it is?
Let me put this down for a sec
Can you tell what it is by looking at it?
Oh hell
She's worried
This looks like a brain of something
It totally does
I'm not that mean
You're not giving me a brain Sharla?
No brain, I promise
You're feeding me like a guest?
It's actually fruit
It's a fruit!?
Can you tell what it is?
There's water in it too
It's pickled
It's a pickled plum
A pickled plum?
Ok you know those weird Indian candies that you gave us today?
They reminded me of this
Oh really?
I'm curious to see if you'll like the flavour
I have a question, people go into the store and buy one plum?
Yeah and the eat it!
It's common to get this, and some rice and eat it with the rice
Because this is really salty
and really flavourful
and you're gonna want something bland to go with it
Ok so you don't eat it alone like a snack on the road
I don't, I definitely don't. I like it with rice
But I'm sure there are people that do
Ok all right
You don't want this all over your pants
You're gonna smell bad
It doesn't get out of my pants? Oh god
Do I take it with my hands?
Yeah why not
There should be a pit in the middle
It's very mushy, it's like I'm doing surgery right now
It's the heart of the patient
It totally looks like a heart
It looks like a heart!
So do I put the entire thing in?
No just take a little bit, I feel like the flavour is gonna be really strong
Just take a little bite out of it
See what you think
No?
Does it remind you of those candies though?
A little
Hajmola, in India we have something very famous called Hajmola
It's a digestive pill, you should try it
(No you shouldn't try it!!)
It's actually nice!
It's weird... like the first bite you take is so sour
And then it turns into a very interesting... like nice
The aftertaste becomes very soothing, not soothing but
Like now I feel like eating it again
Refreshing kind of?
Yeah! I really like it
It's very strange
I wanna eat it, I'm taking very little bites because it's sour
I like sour things
Yeah if you like sour stuff you'll definitely like it
I like it, I really do
The first one was crazy
After that it was fine, I really like it
This is one of the things that foreigners don't like
Like one of the Japanese foods that foreigners are like, why do they eat thisss
So here's the thing, I'm not really American
Like I know Indian food
So you're used to really flavourful stuff
And we use a sweet and sour taste
This is like a sweet and sour, so
Yeah I like this
Enjoy your rice ball
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