Tenkasu vs. Agedama: Tempura Bits
Tempura is a traditional Japanese food made by deep-frying one piece of ingredient covered in a batter of hen’s eggs and wheat flour. The scraps of deep-fried Tempura batter generated in the cooking have...
Category: Foods
5 Famous Japanese Dagashi Snacks using Surimi Fish Paste
“Dagashi (駄菓子)” is a snack genre unique to Japan, which is mostly made up of so-called junk foods. In fact, the Dagashi treats are so cheap, being sold for 10 (about 0.1 USD) to 100...
Oshaburi Kombu: A Classic Japanese Kelp Seaweed Snack
Seaweed is an indispensable part of Japanese food culture, and here, Wakame and Kombu are representatives of such edible seaweed. We often use Wakame in soups and salads, while Kombu or edible kelp is...
Kenchinjiru vs. Tonjiru: Similar Japanese Soup Dishes
In Japanese cuisine, some soups sometimes look the same, and many people can’t tell the difference. If I give a representative example of such foods, what comes to my mind right away is Tonjiru (豚汁)...
Poppo Yaki: Niigata’s bread-like Brown Stick Cake
Today, I went for a drive to Matsunoyama Onsen (松之山温泉), situated in Tokamachi City, Niigata, to enjoy its hot spring bath. The Onsen is a nationally famous hot spring resort, generally known as one...
Wataame: Japanese Cotton Candy with Roots in the U.S.
Dagashi (駄菓子) is the generic name for cheap, relatively small, unique Japanese snacks and candies, whose price ranges from 10 yen to about 100 yen. The origin dates back to the Edo period, about...
Calpas: Japanese Semi-Dry Sausage, like Salami
As you may know, Dagashi is the word for cheap Japanese snacks and candies. It comes in numerous different varieties, loved by children for its uniqueness. When I was a boy, I would go...
Nissin Mouko Tanmen Nakamoto Instant Rice Soup
Nowadays, I often see newly released cups of instant rice soup from Nissin lined up on the shelf in the instant noodle aisle of a 7-Eleven that I regularly stop by on the way...
