New Animal Onigiri Wrappers

Yesterday was Youth Day, so today is the school holiday in lieu of. Kids are home so I have one more day of rest. I decided to post about some new stuff I purchased last week.

Short of time to decorate your bento but still want it to look good? Not good at moulding onigiris with your hands but don't have a riceball mould? No problem! Just pull out a sheet of animal onigiri wrapper and pack the rice in with your paddle. Simply use the wrapper itself to mould the riceball into a flattened ball, then just fold the edges of the wrapper over, like a present, and tape the edge down with the kawaii, matching sticker included. Ta-da! Bento instantly cutesy-fied!

Animal Onigiri Wraps

Spotted at Daiso - a new design of rice ball wrapper plus a set of plastic food cups which can be used as barans as well.  Although these are all disposable, they're really easy to use. The stock at Daiso is very erratic however, so whenever I come across them, I buy a few more packs to tide me over. And now I've got rather too many packs of onigiri wraps in different designs d:)

To eat the onigiri, simply tear the tag on the animal's face straight down to reveal the yummy onigiri beneath, it's that simple! This onigiri wrapper was the only one I'd allow RM to bring to school, because he was not able to use the other type with the nori sleeve, which requires flipping the riceball or unfolding and refolding the plastic. Recently though, he has learnt how to use both types, so good for him d:)

This type of onigiri wrapper was previously featured in this post and this post.