Onigiri

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

Salt

(salt packets available in utensils space in BD)

Water

Freshly cooked rice

(may be obtained from stir fry in BD)

Nori seaweed

(United Provisions has this)

Filling

(e.g. pork floss, grilled salmon, UP has these too)

HOW TO MAKE THIS

Pull up a piece of entertainment because you might be here a while.
Toss a few pinches of salt into a small bowl of water (e.g. WashU honeydew containers).
Wet hands with saltwater and grab a handful of rice. You can mix a bit of sesame or rice seasoning into it, like in the image above, if it suits your fancy.
Mold rice into triangles (illustrations below: 1). You can use a spoon or similar flat edge, though wet hands work perfectly well and mean one less utensil to rinse.
Make a small indentation in the rice with your finger (don't stab through completely, though), and pat in your filling (illustrations below: 2-4).
Place triangles of rice onto a sheet of nori seaweed.
Fold and wrap the nori seaweed over the rice ball to enclose it.

RINSE-REPEAT: MAKE AS MANY AS YOU NEED!

THEN, enjoy immediately, or if you're a sinner like me, wrap them in cling wrap and toss them in the fridge for consumption one to three days later, because hardened rice and softened seaweed is really not much of a problem! Everyone else is just foolishly picky!

TIPS + ALTERNATIVES

My mom molds the rice with cling wrap instead of her hands, and photos suggest that works perfectly well.
You can also forgo the the nori seaweed: the rice ball will still stay packed together unless you're using say, jasmine rice, which is too hard and dry to stick together long, and also hardens into gravel after a night of refrigeration (I speak from ill-considered experience).
If the rice is sticking too much to your hands and making it difficult to mold, just soak your hands in more water. Water solves many problems, from survival to adhesion.
There are onigiri rice molds sold, but it's quite a lot of trouble to get the necessarily sticky rice out of the molds once it's been packed in, which somewhat defeats the purpose.
If you were wondering, the salt's to help with preservation.

ONIGIRI

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

HOW TO MAKE THIS

ILLUSTRATIONS

TIPS + ALTERNATIVES