Cheese Puff
Puff pastry with cheese filling.
Step into the exciting realm of Pocket Sandwiches in our dedicated category! Journey through the world of these compact, on-the-go delights, from the iconic Hot Pockets to the traditional Cornish Pasty. Uncover the magic behind a well-stuffed pocket sandwich and the endless possibilities it offers. Whether you prefer a crispy crust or a fluffy bread exterior, there's a pocket sandwich for everyone.
Puff pastry with cheese filling.
Bread roll with cheese filling.
The Indian bread roll wraps a flattened slice tight around spiced potato and fries it into a sealed log, no batter, the bread itself becoming the crust: a teatime snack eaten with chutney.
Bread pakora is a spiced-potato sandwich dipped whole in besan batter and deep-fried: a shatter-crisp gram-flour jacket over soft bread and a hot, chili-loud potato core, eaten with chai.
Bread pakora served with green and tamarind chutneys.
Okinawan taco rice as sandwich; Tex-Mex influence from US military presence.
Sushi rice with various sashimi-grade fish, cucumber, avocado in nori; fusion concept.
Grilled compressed rice 'buns' with filling (usually teriyaki meat or shrimp); MOS Burger popularized.
Rice burger with yakiniku beef filling.
Rice burger with tempura or grilled shrimp.
Rice burger with kinpira gobo filling; vegetarian.
Rice burger with chicken filling.
Onigirazu is named for a refusal: the negative of nigiru, to press, so it means the rice ball you did not press. One sheet of nori does the holding, and the flat cross-section is the payoff.
The richest onigirazu turns on its one ingredient from a bottle: yakiniku no tare, the sweet-soy glaze Ebara has sold since 1968.
The pickled-plum onigirazu: a flat nori-and-rice envelope built around a single umeboshi, the salt-and-acid threading the rice and giving the format its longest practical lunch-bag life.
Tuna mayo is the best-selling konbini onigiri flavour; onigirazu takes it out of the rice-ball core and spreads it flat. The most forgiving, lunchbox-friendly member of the family.
Onigirazu with teriyaki chicken.
Onigirazu with Spam and fried egg; Okinawan-influenced flavor.
Onigirazu with shrimp tempura.
Onigirazu with grilled salted salmon (shiojake).
Onigirazu with natto (fermented soybeans); acquired taste.
Onigirazu with kinpira gobo (braised burdock root and carrot).
Karaage onigirazu folds Japanese fried chicken, soy-ginger-garlic thigh in a crisp potato-starch coat that holds even cold, into a flat nori-and-rice envelope cut to show the banded face.
Onigirazu with bacon, lettuce, tomato; fusion.