About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a couple days.
This good looking surfer dude showed me around the island in his VW
bug. We stopped at a roadside concession stand and had these tasty
rice balls wrapped in saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting.
Seem to remember someone saying it was something eaten for breakfast.
Anybody know what these were and where I can find A recipe?
deb

burt wrote:
>
> About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a couple days.
> This good looking surfer dude showed me around the island in his VW
> bug. We stopped at a roadside concession stand and had these tasty
> rice balls wrapped in saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting.
> Seem to remember someone saying it was something eaten for breakfast.
> Anybody know what these were and where I can find A recipe?
> deb

(laughing) Rice Krispies treats?

nancy (kidding around)

On 10 May 2004 15:35:59 -0700, (burt) wrote:

>About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a couple days.
>This good looking surfer dude showed me around the island in his VW
>bug. We stopped at a roadside concession stand and had these tasty
>rice balls wrapped in saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting.
>Seem to remember someone saying it was something eaten for breakfast.
>Anybody know what these were and where I can find A recipe?

They're called "musubi", the most popular of which (in Hawaii, at least) is Spam
Musubi (often erroneously called "Spam Sushi"). They come in dozens of different
varieties, but the classic musubi is a ball of rice, sometimes molded into a
triangular shape, with a piece of pickled, preserved plum (umeboshi) stuffed
into the center of it, and then either rolled in a piece of nori, or sprinkled
with "furikake", which is the highly addictive seaweed and sesame-seed rice
seasoning. Other popular fillings are tunafish (sweetened with sugar and shoyu)

Some people use actual sushi rice (i.e. with sugar and rice vinegar) to make
musubi, but generally it's just plain rice. You mentioned that the rice balls
you had were sweet tasting, so you might have had a variation of musubi known as
"Inari Sushi" (better known as "cone sushi"), which is actual sushi rice,
stuffed into a pocket of fried bean curd ("aburage" ), and they are oh so sweet,
and oh so yummy.

In Hawaii, practically everyone eats rice at breakfast every day (as well as
lunch and dinner). They even serve a "portuguese sausage, eggs and rice"
breakfast platter at McDonalds (and every other fast food joint, for that
matter). 7-11 even sells musubi, so you can get your fix 24 hours a day

I have fond memories as a little kid of my mom putting musubi for me in my lunch
sack, whenever my school went on a field trip.

just do a google search, and you can find a plethora of recipes. Just make sure
that the source is from a Hawaii or Japanese website/person, if you want the
real deal

Heres a good start, for spam musubi:

http://tinyurl.com/38f6d

Aloha,
mel

Here's a good article on musubi i just found (with great photos!):

http://starbulletin.com/2002/06/19/features/story1.html

Aloha,
mel

In article > ,
(burt) wrote:

> About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a couple days.
> This good looking surfer dude showed me around the island in his VW
> bug. We stopped at a roadside concession stand and had these tasty
> rice balls wrapped in saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting.
> Seem to remember someone saying it was something eaten for breakfast.
> Anybody know what these were and where I can find A recipe?
> deb

I didn't know rice had balls...... ;-)

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"burt" > wrote in message
m...
> About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a couple days.
> This good looking surfer dude showed me around the island in his VW
> bug. We stopped at a roadside concession stand and had these tasty
> rice balls wrapped in saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting.
> Seem to remember someone saying it was something eaten for breakfast.
> Anybody know what these were and where I can find A recipe?
> deb

Tell us more about this good looking surfer dude and how you enjoyed his
balls in the VW. Be as descriptive as possible. Thanks.

burt wrote:
>
> About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a couple days.
> This good looking surfer dude showed me around the island in his VW
> bug. We stopped at a roadside concession stand and had these tasty
> rice balls wrapped in saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting.
> Seem to remember someone saying it was something eaten for breakfast.
> Anybody know what these were and where I can find A recipe?

Is there any chance they were wrapped in leaves? It sounds more
like steamed sweet-rice (about as closely related to domesticated
rice as is wild rice). Sweet-rice is popular in Thai cooking,
sometimes called glutinous rice. It is naturally sweet and
sticky and the grains before they are cooked look rather like
domesticated rice grains. The recipe is simple - steam with far
more water than domesticated rice, and wrap it first to keep it
from sticking to the pot and making a glutinous mess.

"Katra" > wrote in message
...
> In article > ,
> (burt) wrote:
>
> > About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a couple days.
> > This good looking surfer dude showed me around the island in his VW
> > bug. We stopped at a roadside concession stand and had these tasty
> > rice balls wrapped in saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting.
> > Seem to remember someone saying it was something eaten for breakfast.
> > Anybody know what these were and where I can find A recipe?
> > deb
>
> I didn't know rice had balls...... ;-)

You really should lay off the inhalants, retard. You get more and more
stupid by the minute.

kilikini wrote:
>
> Here's a link to a site with lots of Hawaiian recipes, if anyone is
> interested. In the desserts section, you'll find two different recipes for
> butter Mochi; one has coconut and the other doesn't.
>
> http://www2.hawaii.edu/recipes/

Great thanks for this link. I pass through Hono on my way to Kwaj every
now and then and have to hurry around to find goodies to bring back. Last
trip I went to Patti's at the Ala Moana mall and they were out of manapua.
Now I can try to make my own. rms

On Tue, 11 May 2004 19:03:11 GMT, "kilikini" >
wrote:

>Trust me, what he's referring to is Buttered Mochi. It's a naturally sweet
>sticky rice further sweetened with sugar, butter & vanilla.

I wouldn't be so certain. Even though I haven't patronized the roadside stands
in a while (I assume the OP was referring to the myriad of roadside food trucks
and stands up on the north shore), I've lived in Hawaii for 32 years now and I
dont recall many of them, if any, ever offering mochi. Since a lot of these
stands are tourist traps (although they're one of the few tourist traps I
absolutely love ) , it's hard to believe that they'd offer such a challenging
thing like mochi to people who are expecting pineapple boats and coconuts with
straws jammed in them. Hell, I'm pure blooded Japanese, and even *I* hate mochi!
:P

Musubi (which is easily recognizable by it's saran-wrap clothing) OTOH, are
ubiquitous in concession stands.

Of course, I am completely willing to be wrong about all this :P

Aloha,
mel

On CNN today....

IRVING, Texas (Reuters) -- What could be more convenient for 7-Eleven
customers in the United States than a Slurpee and a rice ball on the run?

James Keyes, the chief executive of world's top convenience-store operator
7-Eleven Inc. said in an interview on Tuesday he would like to bring one of
the most popular fast food items in Japan called "onigiri," or rice balls,
to 7-Eleven stores in the United States.

Onigiri, which are about as popular in Japan as sandwiches are in the United
States, typically consist of rice wrapped in seaweed and stuffed with
ingredients such as grilled salmon, pickled plums or cod roe.

Onigiri are a little smaller than hamburgers and are big sellers at 7-Eleven
stores in Japan.

Keyes said it would be a dream of his to be a force that propels onigiri
across the Pacific and into the mainstream of American food.

He said 7-Eleven customers could see onigiri on U.S. store shelves in a few
years.

"The movement toward the onigiri, or rice ball product, is certainly in
development. But we are probably two or three years away from being able to
have the right quality and taste combinations," Keyes said.

Keyes said that the retailer will look to develop onigiri flavors that will
sit well with U.S. consumers.

There could be rice ball offerings stuffed with barbecued pulled pork or
Cajun beans on its U.S. store shelves.

Some of the more popular Japanese onigiri items, such as spicy fish eggs,
dried fish flakes or kelp would probably not sit well with U.S. consumers
who may prefer a Slurpee and beef jerky.

The retailer has rolled out sushi in test markets in California and New York
over the past two years.

The Dallas-based retailer has recently increased its offerings of upscale,
low-price new foods as it has improved its infrastructure and delivery
speed.

The largest convenience store chain in the world, 7-Eleven sells 11.6
million Slurpee drinks in the United States each month and almost 100
million hot dogs a year -- more than any other American retailer.

Japanese retailer Ito-Yokado and its affiliates own the majority of 7-Eleven
Inc's common stock.






"burt" > wrote in message
m...
> About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a couple days.
> This good looking surfer dude showed me around the island in his VW
> bug. We stopped at a roadside concession stand and had these tasty
> rice balls wrapped in saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting.
> Seem to remember someone saying it was something eaten for breakfast.
> Anybody know what these were and where I can find A recipe?
> deb

On Wed, 12 May 2004 11:01:05 -0400, "Mike Tetrault" > wrote:

>IRVING, Texas (Reuters) -- What could be more convenient for 7-Eleven
>customers in the United States than a Slurpee and a rice ball on the run?
>
>James Keyes, the chief executive of world's top convenience-store operator
>7-Eleven Inc. said in an interview on Tuesday he would like to bring one of
>the most popular fast food items in Japan called "onigiri," or rice balls,
>to 7-Eleven stores in the United States.

Wow...this must be one of the signs of the Apocalypse!

We've had 'em in our 7-11's here for at least 15 years now, though...

Aloha,
mel

Wow. Thanks all for all the scoop about rice. I had no idea. I'm
rwady to embark on a rice adventure. (my low carb diet is screaming in
the back of my head)
As for the VW and my guide: I think it's a sign of old age that I
remember the rice balls more clearly than the surfer dude.