Onigiri-My-Way

I found time today to try and make onigiri.
The title explains that is not the original onigiri, that's because.....i'm not so good at cooking so better to explain...that way i hope you don't get a trauma seeing my onigiri!
So what i used is listed in the post below..
oh...okay okay, I'm gonna say again:
Japanese rice, Nori seaweed, red bean cream (with pieces of bean inside), salt, sugar.
The recipe says to use rice vinegar, but i hadn't.
I cleaned the rice in water until the water was looking clean, then i let the rice to rest for 15 minutes

After 15 minutes has pass, i did put the rice with clean water in a pot on the high fire until it boiled, at that point i lowered the flame and let the water to dry.
when the water has gone, the recipe tells you to use the wooden pot, but i don't have so i just used a clean pot.

I should have melt the sugar and the salt (for 500g of rice is 2 little spoon of sugar and 1 of salt) with vinegar but i just used sugar and salt in the new pot and mixed it gently, because you don't have to break the rice or it won't stay in shape.

while mixing i flatter the rice to make it to cool down, then i covered it with a cloth and waited 10 more minutes.

After that i used my heart and star shape, i first put in them a little rice then in the center some bean cream and covered with more rice.

Turned it upside down on the seaweed and cut the shape.
The wet rice will glue the seaweed.
This is the result, not wonderful, but it taste good ;)

Poporoya, real Japanese food

It was some months we wanted to try this place, Poporoya.
http://www.poporoyamilano.com/

It is a sushi bar, and it is famous because the chef is a true, certificate Japanes chef.
There is also, in front of the sushi bar, a sushi restaurant, but is only in the bar where you can eat food made by the real Poporoya.
As you enter, you find a little shop where to buy Japanese ingredients and such.
And the clerck who is (or i think so) his daughter, she takes your order, so you have to chose what to eat at the entrance, and as there is a free spot she makes you to sit.
The food arrives very fast, and is yummy!
There you can find also daifuku and dorayaki.
Too bad i ate too much and didn't had space left for the sweet.
It is forbidden to take pics inside, so this is the only shot i took before notice the forbidden sign.

After dinner, we decided to buy something from the shop so i went for what is needed to make onigiri, easy!

So soon i will post my onigiri ( not so soon) !!

Shaped rice for onigiri

Today i decided to prepare my tomorrow lunch.

And pushed by this desire i used for the first time the...thingies to make shaped rice.

I got them to the Japan Center, in London, close to Piccadilly Circus.

They even put the instruction, in Japanese obviously, and everybody knows i'm fluent in Japanese, aswell i'm a great chef so i don't need any instruction...

So, yeah it is quite easy, first of all you have to cook some rice.

At this point is up to you, you can cook Japanese rice and make onigiri or whatever, or just cook whatever rice you have as long as it sticky.

Then Let it to cool a bit.

At this point you can just use the shaped thingies as a spoon and get rice in it, like this

Press it down like this

And close the clover for a few, like one minute.

On the back the thingies got a spot made to push the rice out, and this is the result, enjoy!