Cute and Cuddly Mas Loco Onigiri

So as we posted earlier last week we wanted to incorporate Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco into some kind of sushi. We chose to make Onigiri which are the rice triangles that would be found next to Spam Musubi. This time we actually went out and bought the proper tools to make such a dish at a Japanese store called Ichiban Kan in El Cerrito.

The store was filled to the brim with all sorts of food, gadgets, and other rediculously cheap items you normally would not buy at an American store. Since we were at a Japanese store everything was super cheap and we spent about $28 dollars on the items we needed for the meal, we also bought other stuff and the overall total came to $40. We would have spent more but the shopping basket was getting full.

We got four sushi presses to make shapes, Onigiri, Musubi, and rolls. They take the dumbass out of dumbass sushi chef, so we are sushi chefs....YUSSSS!

Ichiban Kan is located all across the Bay Area, we went to the closest one to us in El Cerrito.

The store is small but is packed with anything and everything you can imagine that comes from Japan except for that weird stuff on the internet with an octopus. None the less we found the items we needed. 

Eddie and I spent a long time in the snack and food section, the items ranged from odd fish stuff in a can to candies and sodas. The best part was finding Nori aka sushi weed for real low cheap! So I stocked up, I also got the tofu skin wrappers that are filled with rice. If you were to see them you will know what they are, they come in about every order of gas station sushi.

Now for the star of the show, the Doritos Locos Taco. Luckily there was a Taco Bell down the road from Ichiban Kan, now this was no ordinary Taco Bell. They securely guarded the sacred orange puffed sweetness behind bullet proof glass to the point were you couldn't speak with the cashier. We tried to get a last minute quickie on the order but it was a no go, resulting in the tacos being slid by a bullet proof tray. The tray was rated for a .50 cal round, so the wild gangs of El Cerrito don't mess around holmes. 

The quesadilla maker was a pain to clean so we donated it and borrowed a George Foreman Grill. When we received the grill we were told it was clean but looked as if someone charred a pigeon with it's feathers on. The upside was that all the pork juices drained into the catch tray which was later donated as well. AND! An entire can of spam neatly fit all at once.

It's what it looks like.

Loco Glue

The Onigiri mold was pretty crafty, just like making musubi you just layer your rice and filling, then press down. Traditionally there is a small indent in the top of the triangle for segregating the different fillings, so that is what the protruding bump on the top is for. 

Just a breath taking view of molded pork and a small Vietnamese man's special sauce.

So the smaller mold in the back is what Eddie bought, you can mold a heart, star, and bear out of rice. They didn't hold much but were pretty funny.

These were the best of all we made, aren't they cute? We thought so, so we ate them all.

Japanese Big Mac

To conclude the Tex Mex / Japanese fusion I think the Mas Locos Onigiri tasted different. I know you are thinking well duh it will not taste like eating the taco. The best way to describe it was, it tasted like the taco but missing the crunch from the entire shell. So it was like Taco Bell baby food in sushi, if you can imagine that you are spot on.

Next time we eat a Tsunami before it eats Japan!

-Gerber 4 LYFE!