burt wrote:
>
> About 25 years ago, i was on a stopover in Hawaii for a couple days.
> This good looking surfer dude showed me around the island in his VW
> bug. We stopped at a roadside concession stand and had these tasty
> rice balls wrapped in saran wrap. They were kind of sweet tasting.
> Seem to remember someone saying it was something eaten for breakfast.
> Anybody know what these were and where I can find A recipe?

Is there any chance they were wrapped in leaves? It sounds more
like steamed sweet-rice (about as closely related to domesticated
rice as is wild rice). Sweet-rice is popular in Thai cooking,
sometimes called glutinous rice. It is naturally sweet and
sticky and the grains before they are cooked look rather like
domesticated rice grains. The recipe is simple - steam with far
more water than domesticated rice, and wrap it first to keep it
from sticking to the pot and making a glutinous mess.