Tuna onigiri, rice balls

Tuna poached gently until it's cooked through. I like these frozen pieces better than the tuna fish that comes in little tins.

My own sweet ginger pickle juice in the tuna fish and in the rice as it is steaming. 

These are a million x better than they look. 

Nori tastes like the ocean smells.

The rice is steamed with sweet/sour ginger pickle juice

The tuna fish is made with ginger.

The horseradish smeared as wasabi is somehow lost again. And I used a generous amount too.

Aged soy sauce adds the salt that is needed

These things pull together synergistically in an unpredictable way that makes the sum much better than their individual parts. I eat these two easily and wish I had made two more.

Onigiri, rice balls, Japanese sandwiches

The rice is flavored with kombu, sugar and vinegar.

Actually, with anything that you like.

The filling can be anything. 

Sweet Bread and Butter pickles.

Wakami because I thought it would be nice. 

Now, who do you know who puts wakami in tuna salad? 

Flattened triangle shape is traditional, but it can be any shape.

This is amazing. The flavor combination is outstanding. Tuna salad never tasted this good and I mean it. It's the three seaweeds that does it. They put the ocean into the sandwich. This sandwich tastes like a Pacific island smells. This onigiri tastes like Japan. It looks like nothing, but it's something extraordinary.