She has a channel called Rickshawali

I will link it down below so go check her out, she's really funny and awesome!!

And she's here in Japan, for the first time

We had lots of fun in Harajuku earlier

And she hasn't really tried much Japanese food, right?

No

How long have you been here?

About 9 days

9 days, okay

Have you seen an onigiri before?

Is that the rice thing?

Yep it's a rice ball

I guess the English would be rice ball, even though it's not a ball

Why is it called a ball?

It's not a ball, it's a rice triangle

Well that's interesting

Now, do you know how to open this?

I will just do it, I will just do it

NO STOP IT NO

There's a certain way to do it

So if you look at the package, there's a number 1 up at the top here

This? It's written in Japanese how am I supposed to read that

Right there right there, the number 1

Haha I'm like "I can't read Japanese!"

Just ignore the letters

So pull the #1 down like this

Oh wow!!

And make sure you do it nicely so it goes all the way to the back

Omg this is so cool!

Pull it all the way back? Okay

Yeah you're doing good!

That's so convenient!

And then you've got two corners left

So take the #2 on this side

and just pull it off

Oh god that's literally like magic

Niiiice

That's awesome wow!

And the other side

Okay

There you go!

Hey that's cool!

So the point of the package is so that it keeps the seaweed separate from the rice

So that the seaweed doesn't get mushy

NO WAY.

So now you've got a fresh dry piece of seaweed on the rice

So now you can kind of like curve it around and cover it up

Wow that is so smart

So you can get all different kinds of fillings in onigiri

This is the most typical one, it's called "tsuna mayo"

tsuna mayo

Yeah so its tuna and mayonnaise

In there!?

Yeah

Ooo....

I've never had tuna and mayonnaise

Really!?

Because I'm hungry...

We're so hungry right now

Very hungry, we haven't eaten the entire day

Since breakfast

Is this like the best thing you've ever had?

SO GOOD.

No... Well...

I have to say, I'm not a seaweed person

Right

Cuz it has a little fishy taste

It tastes very simple, I can't taste it

If you get to the middle, there'll be more tuna

It's not very flavourful

Yeah, that's why I like the tuna one because it's really subtle

Like if you're new to onigiri, and you're kinda worried and don't want a super fishy one

I'd say go for the tuna mayo

It's a flavour that Americans would be used to

I'm from India where we have crazy spices, everything is spicy

it has amazing, not amazing, but like crazy explosions of flavours

So this is like really subtle to you?

So this is like, whoa where is the flavour

I'm half, well not half but

I grew up in Germany and I'm living in India now

So I have the understanding of flavours like this

But from an Indian point of view this is like, where is the flavour??

It has no flavour in it

But it's actually nice

I feel with Japanese food there's a combination

There's really subtle stuff like onigiri, and then sometimes you'll get really salty stuff

Which actually we're gonna try next

So maybe you'll wanna save some of your onigiri

Oh is it?

You're gonna want something to eat with this I think

What is that? I just read Family Mart

All of these things I bought from Family Mart

Family Mart is the name of the convenience store

What...

Oh my goodness

Do you know what it is?

Let me put this down for a sec

Can you tell what it is by looking at it?

Oh hell

She's worried

This looks like a brain of something

It totally does

I'm not that mean

You're not giving me a brain Sharla?

No brain, I promise

You're feeding me like a guest?

It's actually fruit

It's a fruit!?

Can you tell what it is?

There's water in it too

It's pickled

It's a pickled plum

A pickled plum?

Ok you know those weird Indian candies that you gave us today?

They reminded me of this

Oh really?

I'm curious to see if you'll like the flavour

I have a question, people go into the store and buy one plum?

Yeah and the eat it!

It's common to get this, and some rice and eat it with the rice

Because this is really salty

and really flavourful

and you're gonna want something bland to go with it

Ok so you don't eat it alone like a snack on the road

I don't, I definitely don't. I like it with rice

But I'm sure there are people that do

Ok all right

You don't want this all over your pants

You're gonna smell bad

It doesn't get out of my pants? Oh god

Do I take it with my hands?

Yeah why not

There should be a pit in the middle

It's very mushy, it's like I'm doing surgery right now

It's the heart of the patient

It totally looks like a heart

It looks like a heart!

So do I put the entire thing in?

No just take a little bit, I feel like the flavour is gonna be really strong

Just take a little bite out of it

See what you think

No?

Does it remind you of those candies though?

A little

Hajmola, in India we have something very famous called Hajmola

It's a digestive pill, you should try it

(No you shouldn't try it!!)

It's actually nice!

It's weird... like the first bite you take is so sour

And then it turns into a very interesting... like nice

The aftertaste becomes very soothing, not soothing but

Like now I feel like eating it again

Refreshing kind of?

Yeah! I really like it

It's very strange

I wanna eat it, I'm taking very little bites because it's sour

I like sour things

Yeah if you like sour stuff you'll definitely like it

I like it, I really do

The first one was crazy

After that it was fine, I really like it

This is one of the things that foreigners don't like

Like one of the Japanese foods that foreigners are like, why do they eat thisss

So here's the thing, I'm not really American

Like I know Indian food

So you're used to really flavourful stuff

And we use a sweet and sour taste

This is like a sweet and sour, so

Yeah I like this

Enjoy your rice ball

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