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I once had an amazing version that had rum, coconut and lime.

Thanks! This is worth a road trip!

Wow! I have never found onigiri in a Japanese market in the DC area. Where in the Philly Burbs is Maido?

Blue Cheese. I just tried a Buffalo Chicken Roll from Wegmans. Now I like blue cheese, but it doesn't work in a sushi roll. Actually the buffalo chicken and tomato seemed strange too.

1. kimchi 2. I recently had a burger with swiss, mushrooms and sour cream. I never would have thought of sour cream on a burger, but the combination was amazingly good.

I remember this was a big issue in the 1980s. In response my school (ISSH in Tokyo) ordered thousands of plastic chopsticks in a portable case with an environmental message on the front. The students were suppose to start using them and selling them to friends/family. It was both a fundraiser and an attempt to start a new trend of carrying chopsticks instead of using disposable. I guess it never took off.

I doubt it's a commercial product as I don't recall seeing them in Japan. If anything, the rice burgers are closer to yaki onigiri (grilled rice balls) than rice cakes. ← Rice Burgers are popular at the Japanese Fast Food Chain Mos Burger

My parents just moved to New Bern after retiring last year. They haven't had any complaints about the restaurants, but they have had a hard time finding good grocery stores. They think that the area is lacking a good selection of fresh produce. Have you had any luck with the local supermarkets? They hit the farmers market over the summer, but I think the selection is still pretty limited.

Wow. Not a lot of time. I would hate to steer you wrong. Moscow has turned into quite a restaurant city and I could recommend a variety of good restaurants, but if you are only there one night I would recommend the Pushkin Cafe NY Times Pushkin Cafe info. Reservations are definitely needed. This place is a very popular, nice Russian restaurant - a Moscow standard. There is a Russian place right at Red Square called 1 Red Square, but I have heard very mixed reviews and I have never been there. You can find reviews of several restauants on the Moscow Expat site expat.ru Restaurant Reviews. Among the ones reviewed, I can highly recommend Scandinavia, Simple Pleasures and Ararat Cafe.

I spend quite a bit of time in Moscow. Are you specifically looking for Russian restaurants? How long will you be there?

Taste of Saigon - I highly recommend anything in their black pepper sauce. Shrimp, scallops or steak are good too.

Sautee some mushrooms with garlic and shallots. Add canned tuna (packed in Olive Oil), frozen peas (optional), juice of one lemon and a tub of creme fraiche. Serve over angel hair pasta. I got this from Good Food magazine a few years ago. Top with parsley. Easy and the pasta and creme fraiche are amazing together. For a lighter meal I mix tuna (in olive oil) with lots of shallots, lemon zest, garlic, lemon zest with pasta, olive oil, some pasta cooking water and lots of lemon juice. One of my favorites is a simple sauce of canned tomatoes cooked with half of an onion for flavor with a few table spoons of butter added at the end. Simple but delicious. I think this came from a Marcella Hazan book.

My BF usually makes them the same way as your wife.... Since mine used to always come out badly shaped (not so triangular), he used to gloat and say that since I'm not Japanese I can't make nice triangular onigiri. However, the last few times we have made them, we used these plastic onigiri makers: This started because I made Kristin's Unagi Okowa(Unagi-Shiso rice) for a party and decided it would be more fun to make it into onigiri (and since I'm not Japanese.....I had to use such a maker ). Also, everyone I know in Hawaii calls these Musubi instead of Onigiri. I actually never heard them referred to as Onigiri until recently ← I have the plastic forms which really help in shaping the onigiri. My problem though is that they seem more bland that when I form with a bowl of water and a little salt. I have tried combining both methods without great success. How do you use your forms? I spent many years in Yokohama and Tokyo, but my mother is originally from Okayama. For some reason I grew up using the names Musubi and Onigiri interchangeably

I did a quick internet search and found a recipe and beautiful photo. There are also comments from people who have tried to make it - that might help. http://www.kyokoskitchen.com/recipes/recip...esecake〈=en The photo looks exactly like the cheesecake I use to get at Cozy Corner and other bakeries in Tokyo years ago. I will have to try to make it soon.