Seaweedin'

I'm addicted to convenience store konbu onigiri (rice balls with a sweet-salty konbu seaweed filling wrapped in crisp nori) once again.

I've had a few weeks of off time since the fateful day that my onigiri fell apart, somehow leading me to inhale the ENTIRE glob of konbu at once. Traumatically salty! Consequentially that did turn me off a bit, but now I am back and hitting them hard.

To be honest, the convenience store ones are really not that good for you at all; they often contain some weird food dyes and chemicals that I just try not to think about while eating them. On the other hand, they are vegan, a quick hunger fix, and super cheap (100 yen=90 cents?), so I dabble in them a considerate amount.

Department stores in Japan often have a basement floor where you can find groceries, as well as Japanese and Western dishes, and when I have time I like to venture down there get fresh konbu onigiri. These are worlds better and phenomenal when warm! Yummy. When I eat them I kind of want to wrap myself in slippery konbu and slide around on hot rice.