Rice Ball

Rice Ball


Nowadays, people eat food without knowing the history of food. One of the interesting food is rice ball, which create in Japan about eleventh century but we call Onigiri in Japanese. Rice ball derives from white rice designs into triangle shape and warps with seaweed, and it always becomes with salty food such as salmon. Many people misunderstands that rich ball is a form of sushi, despite a common misconception. The rice ball makes from plain rice, which is lightly salted, but sushi is rice with sugar and salt.
In the history, Lady Murasaki wrote about people have rice ball as a picnic lunch. Later, Japanese had a war and stored rice ball in bamboo stick because it is easy to take with. In the war the soldiers have only a short free time to have food so it is the purpose of using rice ball. In the other way rice ball is also easy to prepare and quickly having. In the end, rice ball becomes a part of Japanese culture.



I assume that rice ball is more benefit than fast food such as hamburger and fence fires because rice ball gives a lot of nutrition while hamburger gives fat. The advantage of rice ball is easily and quickly prepare, also cheap price so this is the reason why many worker and officer with low salary always take it for having lunch.