spam musubi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A food, common in Hawaii, made of cooked spam tied to a block of rice with nori, differing from sushi in that the rice is not vinegared.

Word forms

spam musubi spam musubis

Etymology

From spam + musubi, from Japanese 結び (musubi, “rice ball”).

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