onigiris

Noun

onigiri (plural onigiris or 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.2007 January 28, “Island Within an Island”, in New York Times

   Synonyms:

   musubi, omusubi, Japanese rice ball