We try eight of the new Omusubi sweets that people in Japan are going crazy for right now.
One of Japan’s most well-known foods has to be the humble onigiri rice ball. Nutritious and easy to eat on the go, these triangular-shaped snacks can be found at supermarkets and convenience stores around the country, filled with a wide selection of savoury fillings and wrapped up in unique packaging that opens in the middle with a convenient pull-tab.
Using the pull-tab to unwrap a rice ball, or “omusubi“, as they’re also known, is a fun and exciting experience at any time of the day, but now there’s a whole new reason to get excited about the world of rice balls, because they’ve just started appearing as delicious cakes.
Called Omusubi Cake, these sweet little morsels come from the Tsukiichi pattisserie in Osaka. After a year in development, the Omusubi Cakes made their debut in August this year and quickly became a hit with locals, selling in excess of 60,000 in just a few months.
The sweets have been so popular that they even made an appearance in Tokyo, selling out at a pop-up shop in Shinjuku’s Lumine department store from 18 November to 12 December. That’s where we picked up eight out of the nine flavours in the collection (the chocolat variety had sold out when we visited) and brought them back home for a taste test.
Starting off with the Grapefruit Omusubi Cake, we lifted the pull tab on the packaging and tore it down the middle, just like we would do on a regular onigiri.
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