Marumiya Furikake Japanese Rice Seasonings 5 packs (5.04oz) noritama,sukiyaki,okaka(bonito),tarako（cod roe)

There are essentially only two (2) big brands in Furikake (rice seasoning)...Marumiya and Nagatanien. Both are great, but IMO (and both are sold here on Amazon), Marumiya is the clear winner. I lost over 100 pounds swithcing to a primarily rice-based diet. Furikake allowed me to "fool" my tastebuds into thinking I was eating something other than "just jasmine sticky rice." What these various Furikake seasonings do is to "trick" your taste buds by making your rice taste like an entirely different dish/meal. Think about it, rice that taste like your eating scrambled eggs? Rice that tastes like your eating a steak, chicken, salmon, etc.? At first I thought it was magic. I don't read Japanese, nor am I asian, so I cannot tell you if all the ingredients are natural (either way, it's "MAGIC" to me). Highly recommended. As I said before, Marumiya is my preferred brand of Furikake over Nagatanien (which is not as "flavorful").

Seriously sukiyaki flavor is so damn good. I felt like I wasn't even eating rice anymore just blasts of flavor. I love the variety you get with this sampler, it's just a shame that the price was raised since I purchased this 3 years ago. You can buy these individual packets in Japan for like 100 yen (around $1 +tax). So a pack of 5 for $13 bucks? That's quite the markup even if the cost of shipping from Japan is included... I'll include the names of each packet in english-ish in case you want to search for individual flavors! :) Flavor profile of the other packets for the curious. - Tarako (Pink Packet) Slightly fishy taste. It'll get a little mushier than the other seasonings. Tarako is supposed to be pollock or cod roe flavor. If you like that, you'll enjoy this one. - Noritama (Green Packet) Nori = the toasty seaweed. Tama = short for tamago, or egg. This is basically egg + toasted seaweed. The egg is more powdery and crunchy. You taste mostly the nori/toasted seaweed. - Bonito-Egg-Seaweed (purple package) The remaining two tasty very similar. The only difference is the purple one has those egg sprinkles that the noritama packet does. - Bonito-Seaweed (black package) Same flavor profile as purple package, but slightly more umami.

We love this furikake other than the beef flavor. I'd give it 5 stars if they sold the flavors individually. It also seems like the price has gone up. I haven't found this brand anywhere other than Japan except through Amazon.

I love the diverse seasonings and they all taste very good. Purple packet is my absolute favorite. They definitely take plain rice and make it really good. usually I never eat rice unless it's paired with something (like meat, veggies, etc.) but I found I could eat just plain rice with some of the seasonings. Don't worry as it's not too overpowering and strong. It's more like well.. a seasoning! Not too strong but the added flavoring is definitely apparent. I highly recommend.

love them all! make me feel like I'm back in Japan!

My husband loves this on his rice. He is Asian and this is a very typical thing that Japanese and people from Hawaii use. it saves me time as well as saves me money. It is fairly expensive at the Asian markets. This gives a nice variety for him. I will definitely buy again.

Love this! I wish it came in just chicken or beef packets, which is the best!

These packets of furikake are precisely the same product we would buy when we lived in Japan. The packets came nicely packaged, and the "use by date" is quite far out time wise, so there is no concern about them becoming out of date quickly. Very happy to have this brand of furikake available to eat in the U.S.