The Southernmost Onigiri?

Today I tried (for the second time) the Crab Onigiri from Hikari - one of the better Japanese restaurants offering sushi in Dunedin (the New Zealand version). The sign offering a job in katakana also offered hope, given the pretty awful stuff being passed off as Japanese food in most other places.

The crab onigiri was pretty good - it consisted of leg meat and a bit too much mayonnaise. NZ$3.50

This one was actually wrapped in an onigiri wrapper and would actually be familiar to someone from Japan or someone like me who lived in Japan. I only add this because of the grapefruit-sized monstrosities being sold as onigiri in a few other places in Dunedin claiming to sell Japanese food.

Shirasu and Eggyolk Onigiri

 This tasty number had rice cooked in a bonito dashi,  tiny white fish and a pretty raw egg yolk. Lots of flavour for 128 yen. How do they do it? The rough translation from the Family mart website is below!


"Fancy rice was mixed with bonito flavor twist, add the ingredients are rice balls whitebait tailored to domestic land of egg yolk nourishment."