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Adobo Onigiri and Menchikatsu Bento
Japanese food and Filipino food take to each other like ducks to water. After all, we both have rice-based diets so it’s not a surprise that our favorite ulam (viands eaten with rice) are wonderful with Japanese rice dishes. Take the onigiri, for instance. Pork Adobo + Onigiri? Perfect!
Contents:
• Adobo Onigiri.I have to admit, the idea isn’t mine originally. A few months ago, Ministop, a chain of convenience stores, came up with Samurice, onigiri mixed with various meat goodies. They had variants like sisig, meatloaf, barbecue, and of course, adobo. Now, despite the non-descript mushy rice they used, I liked their Adobo Samurice because it hit the spot whenever I had a craving for onigiri. Still, I was probably the only person who used to buy it, so it was pulled out of their shelves eventually.
Would I let that stop me? Of course not! Instead, I decided to make a meatier, more flavorful version with koshihikari rice even. I asked my mom to make her next batch of adobo extra big so I had lots of leftovers to experiment with. Instead of making just one or two onigiri, however, I decided to make many and just freeze them. Good idea, no?
• Menchikatsu. A tonkatsu like breaded dish, Menchikatsu is made of minced meat–either pork or beef–that’s mixed with onions and spices then formed into patties before breading. It’s a katsu-hamburger of sorts, I guess.
• Quail eggs on a skewer
• Carrot sticks
• Hello Kitty sauce cup of Tonkatsu sauce for the Menchikatsu.
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How Samurice! Very cute. ^-^
your entries are always appetizing. yumyum! i didn’t like the samurice of mini stop. thought it was too dry. baka na-overheat.
@aoitenshi
Only better
@Tony Lou
Thanks Tony Lou! The samurice I’ve tried weren’t dry…but they were too mushy. I guess yours got overheated? I’ve had times when they didn’t heat it enough so it was still cold and partially frozen at the center. Yucky! But I was too lazy to walk back to Mini-Stop, hehe. Just made sure to check that they nuked it properly next time.
i didn’t like the samurice either. it smelled funny and really tasted of vetsin. it was so bad that even my cat snubbed it. ei, where did you get that skewer/cocktail pick that you used on the eggss? i’ve been searching for something like that
An officemate bought it for me, she says it’s from St. Francis Square. One of those bargain stores / Asian supermarkets at one of the upper levels. I have a set of animal themed ones too, from Co-op (ask Nina) but it’s been a long time since I last saw them there.
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