onigiri

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese お握り (onigiri).

1. A Japanese food made by putting ingredients into white rice, wrapping the outside with laver, and shaping it into a triangle.

   “The sprawling multipage menu offers cleanly executed dishes meant to accompany the sake, including standards like boiled edamame, and the filling rice balls called onigiri that you would expect at any izakaya, or Japanese pub.”

   “He cooks his breakfast of rice and misoshiru and packs onigiri rice balls for his lunch.”