rice balls i ate in hawaii

burt said:

About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a
couple days. This good looking surfer dude showed me
around the island in his VW bug. We stopped at a roadside
concession stand and had these tasty rice balls wrapped in
saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting. Seem to
remember someone saying it was something eaten for
breakfast. Anybody know what these were and where I can
find A recipe? deb

(laughing) Rice Krispies treats?

nancy (kidding around)

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About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a
couple days. This good looking surfer dude showed me
around the island in his VW bug. We stopped at a roadside
concession stand and had these tasty rice balls wrapped in
saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting. Seem to
remember someone saying it was something eaten for
breakfast. Anybody know what these were and where I can
find A recipe? deb

This sounds really familiar but I can't put my finger on it.
What type of sweet taste? I mean was it sugary, cinnamony or
what? This sounds like something I had in San Francisco at
an Asian restaurant. There were rice balls and they had a
rather sweet taste and the only ingredient I could really
identify was lemon grass. I think there was ginger and maybe
cinnamon. I assume you didn't eat the saran wrap 🙂

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(burt) said:

About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a
couple days. This good looking surfer dude showed me around
the island in his VW bug. We stopped at a roadside
concession stand and had these tasty rice balls wrapped in
saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting. Seem to
remember someone saying it was something eaten for
breakfast. Anybody know what these were and where I can
find A recipe?

They're called "musubi", the most popular of which (in
Hawaii, at least) is Spam Musubi (often erroneously called
"Spam Sushi"😉. They come in dozens of different varieties,
but the classic musubi is a ball of rice, sometimes molded
into a triangular shape, with a piece of pickled, preserved
plum (umeboshi) stuffed into the center of it, and then
either rolled in a piece of nori, or sprinkled with
"furikake", which is the highly addictive seaweed and sesame-
seed rice seasoning. Other popular fillings are tunafish
(sweetened with sugar and shoyu)

Some people use actual sushi rice (i.e. with sugar and rice
vinegar) to make musubi, but generally it's just plain rice.
You mentioned that the rice balls you had were sweet
tasting, so you might have had a variation of musubi known
as "Inari Sushi" (better known as "cone sushi"😉, which is
actual sushi rice, stuffed into a pocket of fried bean curd
("aburage" ), and they are oh so sweet, and oh so yummy.

In Hawaii, practically everyone eats rice at breakfast every
day (as well as lunch and dinner). They even serve a
"portuguese sausage, eggs and rice" breakfast platter at
McDonalds (and every other fast food joint, for that
matter). 7-11 even sells musubi, so you can get your fix 24
hours a day 🙂

I have fond memories as a little kid of my mom putting
musubi for me in my lunch sack, whenever my school went on a
field trip.

just do a google search, and you can find a plethora of
recipes. Just make sure that the source is from a Hawaii or
Japanese website/person, if you want the real deal 🙂

Heres a good start, for spam musubi:

tinyurl.com38f6dOpen ↗

Aloha, mel

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(burt) said:

About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a
couple days. This good looking surfer dude showed me
around the island in his VW bug. We stopped at a roadside
concession stand and had these tasty rice balls wrapped in
saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting. Seem to
remember someone saying it was something eaten for
breakfast. Anybody know what these were and where I can
find A recipe? deb

I didn't know rice had balls...... ;-)

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Here's a good article on musubi i just found (with great photos!):

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Aloha, mel

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About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a
couple days. This good looking surfer dude showed me
around the island in his VW bug. We stopped at a roadside
concession stand and had these tasty rice balls wrapped in
saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting. Seem to
remember someone saying it was something eaten for
breakfast. Anybody know what these were and where I can
find A recipe? deb

I assume you're talking about Mochi - a sweet, sticky rice
cake or ball. It's traditionally a Japanese treat made from
Mochiko flour. It can be stuffed with veggies, fish, dropped
in soups or sweetened as treat such as you had it.

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Here's a good article on musubi i just found (with great
photos!):

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Aloha, mel

Musubi is just plain sticky rice wrapped in Nori. I think
he's talking about Mochi.

kili
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Here's a link to a site with lots of Hawaiian recipes, if
anyone is interested. In the desserts section, you'll find
two different recipes for butter Mochi; one has coconut and
the other doesn't.

www2.hawaii.edurecipesOpen ↗

The Mochi recipes in here are baked in a pan, but I would
assume you could roll them into a ball shape and bake them
that way, or roll them and deep fry them.

kili

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About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a
couple days. This good looking surfer dude showed me
around the island in his VW bug. We stopped at a roadside
concession stand and had these tasty rice balls wrapped in
saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting. Seem to
remember someone saying it was something eaten for
breakfast. Anybody know what these were and where I can
find A recipe? deb

Tell us more about this good looking surfer dude and how
you enjoyed his balls in the VW. Be as descriptive as
possible. Thanks.

burt said:

About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a
couple days. This good looking surfer dude showed me
around the island in his VW bug. We stopped at a roadside
concession stand and had these tasty rice balls wrapped in
saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting. Seem to
remember someone saying it was something eaten for
breakfast. Anybody know what these were and where I can
find A recipe?

Is there any chance they were wrapped in leaves? It sounds
more like steamed sweet-rice (about as closely related to
domesticated rice as is wild rice). Sweet-rice is popular in
Thai cooking, sometimes called glutinous rice. It is
naturally sweet and sticky and the grains before they are
cooked look rather like domesticated rice grains. The recipe
is simple - steam with far more water than domesticated
rice, and wrap it first to keep it from sticking to the pot
and making a glutinous mess.

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burt said:

About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a
couple days. This good looking surfer dude showed me
around the island in his VW bug. We stopped at a
roadside concession stand and had these tasty rice balls
wrapped in saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting.
Seem to remember someone saying it was something eaten
for breakfast. Anybody know what these were and where I
can find A recipe?

Is there any chance they were wrapped in leaves? It sounds
more like steamed sweet-rice (about as closely related to
domesticated rice as is wild rice). Sweet-rice is popular
in Thai cooking, sometimes called glutinous rice. It is
naturally sweet and sticky and the grains before they are
cooked look rather like domesticated rice grains. The
recipe is simple - steam with far more water than
domesticated rice, and wrap it first to keep it from
sticking to the pot and making a glutinous mess.

Trust me, what he's referring to is Buttered Mochi. It's a
naturally sweet sticky rice further sweetened with sugar,
butter & vanilla. It can be baked in a pan and cut into
squares or rolled into balls and deep fried. Another popular
way to serve this is to add poi powder to the mix, roll and
deep fry. You can buy it prepared in any grocery store, mini
mart, or 7-11.

kili
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On CNN today....

IRVING, Texas (Reuters) -- What could be more convenient for
7-Eleven customers in the United States than a Slurpee and a
rice ball on the run?

James Keyes, the chief executive of world's top convenience-
store operator 7-Eleven Inc. said in an interview on Tuesday
he would like to bring one of the most popular fast food
items in Japan called "onigiri," or rice balls, to 7-Eleven
stores in the United States.

Onigiri, which are about as popular in Japan as sandwiches
are in the United States, typically consist of rice wrapped
in seaweed and stuffed with ingredients such as grilled
salmon, pickled plums or cod roe.

Onigiri are a little smaller than hamburgers and are big
sellers at 7-Eleven stores in Japan.

Keyes said it would be a dream of his to be a force that
propels onigiri across the Pacific and into the mainstream
of American food.

He said 7-Eleven customers could see onigiri on U.S. store
shelves in a few years.

"The movement toward the onigiri, or rice ball product, is
certainly in development. But we are probably two or three
years away from being able to have the right quality and
taste combinations," Keyes said.

Keyes said that the retailer will look to develop onigiri
flavors that will sit well with U.S. consumers.

There could be rice ball offerings stuffed with barbecued
pulled pork or Cajun beans on its U.S. store shelves.

Some of the more popular Japanese onigiri items, such as
spicy fish eggs, dried fish flakes or kelp would probably
not sit well with U.S. consumers who may prefer a Slurpee
and beef jerky.

The retailer has rolled out sushi in test markets in
California and New York over the past two years.

The Dallas-based retailer has recently increased its
offerings of upscale, low-price new foods as it has improved
its infrastructure and delivery speed.

The largest convenience store chain in the world, 7-Eleven
sells 11.6 million Slurpee drinks in the United States each
month and almost 100 million hot dogs a year -- more than
any other American retailer.

Japanese retailer Ito-Yokado and its affiliates own the
majority of 7-Eleven Inc's common stock.

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About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a
couple days. This good looking surfer dude showed me
around the island in his VW bug. We stopped at a roadside
concession stand and had these tasty rice balls wrapped in
saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting. Seem to
remember someone saying it was something eaten for
breakfast. Anybody know what these were and where I can
find A recipe? deb

Mike Tetrault said:

IRVING, Texas (Reuters) -- What could be more convenient
for 7-Eleven customers in the United States than a Slurpee
and a rice ball on the run?

James Keyes, the chief executive of world's top convenience-
store operator 7-Eleven Inc. said in an interview on
Tuesday he would like to bring one of the most popular fast
food items in Japan called "onigiri," or rice balls, to 7-
Eleven stores in the United States.

Wow...this must be one of the signs of the Apocalypse!

We've had 'em in our 7-11's here for at least 15 years
now, though...

Aloha, mel

On Tue, 11 May 2004 19:03:11 GMT, "kilikini" <[email hidden]>

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Trust me, what he's referring to is Buttered Mochi. It's a
naturally sweet sticky rice further sweetened with sugar,
butter & vanilla.

I wouldn't be so certain. Even though I haven't patronized
the roadside stands in a while (I assume the OP was
referring to the myriad of roadside food trucks and stands
up on the north shore), I've lived in Hawaii for 32 years
now and I dont recall many of them, if any, ever offering
mochi. Since a lot of these stands are tourist traps
(although they're one of the few tourist traps I absolutely
love 🙂) , it's hard to believe that they'd offer such a
challenging thing like mochi to people who are expecting
pineapple boats and coconuts with straws jammed in them.
Hell, I'm pure blooded Japanese, and even *I* hate mochi! :P

Musubi (which is easily recognizable by it's saran-wrap
clothing) OTOH, are ubiquitous in concession stands.

Of course, I am completely willing to be wrong about
all this :P

Aloha, mel

Wow. Thanks all for all the scoop about rice. I had no idea.
I'm rwady to embark on a rice adventure. (my low carb diet
is screaming in the back of my head) As for the VW and my
guide: I think it's a sign of old age that I remember the
rice balls more clearly than the surfer dude.

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kilikini said:

Trust me, what he's referring to is Buttered Mochi. It's
a naturally

sweet

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sticky rice further sweetened with sugar, butter &
vanilla.

I wouldn't be so certain. Even though I haven't patronized
the roadside

stands

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in a while (I assume the OP was referring to the myriad of
roadside food

trucks

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and stands up on the north shore), I've lived in Hawaii
for 32 years now

and I

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dont recall many of them, if any, ever offering mochi.
Since a lot of

these

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stands are tourist traps (although they're one of the few
tourist traps I absolutely love 🙂) , it's hard to believe
that they'd offer such a

challenging

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thing like mochi to people who are expecting pineapple
boats and coconuts

with

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straws jammed in them. Hell, I'm pure blooded Japanese,
and even *I* hate

mochi!

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:P

Musubi (which is easily recognizable by it's saran-wrap
clothing) OTOH,

are

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ubiquitous in concession stands.

Of course, I am completely willing to be wrong about
all this :P

Aloha, mel

Isn't this funny? I (who doesn't have a drop of Japanese in
me) like Mochi, but can't stand Musubi. Musubi, whether it's
SPAM, egg, sausage or a combo of the afore mentioned) is a
dry, sticky unpalatable thing to try to get down your
throat. If you don't have water with it forget it! I can't
imagine that a tourist would find bland, sticky rice and a
thin slice of spam all wrapped in seaweed (Nori) tasty - but
maybe *I'm* completely wrong!

kili
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kilikini said:

Here's a link to a site with lots of Hawaiian recipes, if
anyone is interested. In the desserts section, you'll find
two different recipes for butter Mochi; one has coconut
and the other doesn't.

www2.hawaii.edurecipesOpen ↗

Great thanks for this link. I pass through Hono on my way to
Kwaj every now and then and have to hurry around to find
goodies to bring back. Last trip I went to Patti's at the
Ala Moana mall and they were out of manapua. Now I can try
to make my own. rms

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kilikini said:

Here's a link to a site with lots of Hawaiian recipes,
if anyone is interested. In the desserts section, you'll
find two different recipes

for

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butter Mochi; one has coconut and the other doesn't.

www2.hawaii.edurecipesOpen ↗

Great thanks for this link. I pass through Hono on my way
to Kwaj every now and then and have to hurry around to
find goodies to bring back. Last trip I went to Patti's at
the Ala Moana mall and they were out of manapua. Now I can
try to make my own. rms

Glad I could help! :-)

kili
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