Making Onigiri at Hive Creators Day / Hive Creators Dayでおにぎり

in Food & Culture4 days ago

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Since the day before yesterday, I’ve been in Graz, Austria for @buzzparty’s Hive Creators Day.

I wanted to introduce this Food & Culture community, so I made rice balls (onigiri), soul food of my home country Japan and salad to share during lunch on the second day. While out for a morning walk, I stumbled upon a market—and it felt like it was telling me, “You should make a salad too!” So I added that to the plan 😊

Always nice to walk aroun a local market

In the morning, I was in the kitchen making rice balls and salad while listening to the talks. Big thanks to the kind kitchen team who made me feel welcome.

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Huge thanks to @reiseamature, the local host of the event, who so openly said “Sure!” to my sudden in away strange request to make onigiri, to everyone who showed interest in Food & Culture, and to those who gave the rice balls a try ☺️

It’s been a long-time dream of mine to travel, cook with local ingredients, and share that food with others. I was so happy to make that dream come true at Hive Creators Day. I really love how open-minded the Hive community is.

There was an announcement about the location of this year’s Hive Fest—it’ll be held in Kuala Lumpur! In October, I’m planning a trip to India during my daughter’s fall break, and now I’m wondering if I could make both happen somehow.

🌴 [save the date] HiveFest10 - 15–19 Oct 2025 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! 🇲🇾

Could I cook something at Hive Fest too??? It’d be fun to make sushi in Kuala Lumpur with local ingredients. I started talking with my partner how can we combine India and Kuala Lumur ... almost certain I’ll go 😁

Tomorrow morning, I’ll be taking an early train back to Germany, so I focus on fully enjoying the afternoon talks and dinner.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!

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一昨日から @buzzparty のHive Creators Dayでオーストリアのグラーツに来ています。

このFood & Cultureコミュニティを知ってもらいたくて、カンファレンスデーの2日目のお昼に合わせて、おにぎりとサラダを作りました。朝散歩に出かけたらマーケットがあって、「サラダも作りなよ!」と言われている気がしてサラダを追加することにしました 😊

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午前中はおにぎりとサラダを作りながらキッチンでトークを聞いていました。親切にしてくださったキッチンチームのみなさん、ありがとうございました。

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「おにぎり作ってもいいですか?」という突拍子のないリクエストを快諾してくれたグラーツのホストの @reiseamature さんはじめ、Food & Cultureに興味を持ってくださったみなさん、おにぎりを食べてみてくれたみなさん、ありがとうございました。

旅をしながら地元の食材で料理する、さらにそれをふるまうって長年の夢だったんですよね。それがHive Creators Dayでかなってとてもうれしかったです。そんなオープンマインドなユーザーの多いHiveが大好きです。

Hive Creators Dayでは今年のHive Festの開催地の発表があり、クアラルンプールとのこと。10月は子供の秋休みを利用してインド旅行を予定していて、なんとか両方実現できないかなと考え始めました。

🌴 [save the date] HiveFest10 - 15–19 Oct 2025 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! 🇲🇾

Hive Festでも何か料理できないかな???ローカルの材料でお寿司作ってもおもしろいな・・・なんて、もうほぼ行く気です 😁

明日は朝早く電車でドイツに戻るので、午後のトークとディナーを満喫しようと思います。

それではみなさん、よい週末を!

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Ohhhhhh nooooooo I missed your onigiri :/ what a shame!
It was lovely meeting you and I liked our (short but) good conversations :) When I am goign to visit Leipzig this year (what will probably happen in summer) I will definetly contact you and hope that we could meet up! Have an amazing week ahead and hopefully see you soon <3

Hi @tibfox! Thank you for all your effort to organize Hive Creators Day :) It was really nice visit in Graz. By the way, do you still have the 3D printer? My daughter pushes me to ask about it to you. Haha, no stress. Take rest and see you soon!

Thank you for the kind words <3 Yes I still have one! What do you need to get printed? I can make it and send it over to you. I would like to have something I can print after the long day without any use of it haha

Thanks so much for treating us to the onigiri Akiko, it was such a love touch, and you make it so effortless even though I know you even bought a rice cooker and rice all the way with you. Thank you!!

Thank you for your kind comment, @livinguktaiwan 😊 I appreciate to the Hive community that I could make this funny idea to travel with rice cooker and rice 🍚 Actually I bought it for the Hive Fest last year but I felt a bit shy back then. Ja but now I more know people on Hive is so open minded that I could make this try 🐝

Enjoy the third day and hopefully see you again at Hive Fest!