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Posted by Staff
April 2, 2005

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If you're familiar with the West Queen West area, SANKO would probably have already made your radar.

A small Japanese, grocery and gift store which also sells ready to eat Japanese sushi humbly sits at the corner of Queen West and Claremont. It was introduced to me last year by a friend of mine after we got our coifs cut at Le Coupe Bizzarre a couple of doors down.

But aside from the rows of Pocky, jelly candies, corn starch cookies and the $0.75 Ichiban instant noodles (the best!), I keep going back for one thing.

May I introduce you to Onigiri.

A triangular sushi-like snack with a dash of a diversity of flavours including: Ume (plum), Seaweed, Beef, Salmon, Pickled Mustard Leaf and Bonito just to name a few. I picked up one in each flavour at $1.50 a piece.

The funny part is that it doesn't register on any greatness scale but for some reason, it still is immensely satisfying. Part of the fun is getting the seaweed outside the cellophane wrapping without needing to actually touch it with bare hands.

Try it out next time you're in the area and let me know which flavour you tried and what you thought.

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I don't get it....what exactly is it?

Posted by: stolentype

at April 3, 2005 12:22 AM

it's sort of a rice ball with a small topping of whatever flavour. Slightly difficult to explain. You could go in and check it out. The people there are really helpful and kind.

Posted by: Christine at April 3, 2005 11:35 AM

Oni-giri is basically a triangle of sticky rice, sometimes wrapped in seaweed, with salmon or pickle or some other kind of fish or meat or vegetable inside.

A truly wonderful snack - kept me fed most mornings on the way to work when I was in Japan. Some of the more adventurous ones have ikura - fish eggs. Those were delicious as well.

Posted by: Dave at August 28, 2007 8:14 AM

onigiri- is a japanese light meal, always consisting of rice; and often having a filling (such as fish or preserved plum) in the centre. Sometimes it just a ball of rice with furikake all over it. o-nigiri brings to mind the idea of smushing rice into a ball... anyway, it can also be wrapped in nori seaweed. I find them fantastic, especially the ume (preserved plum) variety. I am going to make a trip to sanko sometime (from Kingston) to get me some o-nigiri!

Posted by: Anonymous at September 8, 2007 1:12 AM