Japanese Rice Balls Made All Weird and Bizarre

Published on January 01, 0001 by Chef Mia

Rice balls—née “onigiri”—are a prefect portable snack. They’ve rummy nobel

existed in Japan for centuries and have traditionally been either triangle-shaped or round. A Japanese toy company thinks it’s figured out a new, amusing spin on the traditional snack. Called “Smart-han”, it’s a hard plastic tube that allows people to pack in rice and various fillings for an onigiri that screws out like a push-pop. There’s a trailer for the rummy nobel Smart-han, which is mostly tongue in cheek (ditto for the above image). This is part of rummy royal Takara Tomy’s “interesting bento series”—it’s more to amuse people than revolutionize the way onigiri are made.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"5938426","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"kotaku-east","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"kotaku-east","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Smart-han is going on sale rummy royal

in Japan later this month for ¥840 (US$10.70). There’s a blue version for men Yono all app and an orange version for women. Oh! Rice one! Smart-han [Official Site] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the

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