Onigiri Hands

Once more I’ve been called upon to make onigiri (お握り), rice balls, for the kids. We got some onigiri mixes at Mitsuwa last weekend and my wife bought Nishiki sushi rice which turned out to work very well for this. I feel like Azuma in Yakitate!! Japan except instead of solar hands, I’ve got onigiri hands which won’t stick to the rice. Whenever my wife tries to make rice balls, even with sopping wet hands, the rice just sticks to her like crazy! After much frustration on her part, I got the job of making rice balls as an almost hereditary duty now! That’s cool with me though. One should always be indispensible for a few things!