Ume Nori-Maki Arare Seaweed-Roll Rice Crackers
Senbei, Okaki, and Arare are the 3 types of traditional Japanese rice crackers that are most commonly eaten in Japan as an afternoon tea snack. They are usually made by baking rice dough without...
Category: Snacks
I Tried the Umaibo New Flavor Nori-Shio
In July 2020, the leading Dagashi snack company, Yaokin added a new regular flavor to their Umaibo line for the first time in five years, and I bought 2 pieces of the newly released...
Glico Pretz: Classic Japanese Pretzel Stick Snack
Ezaki Glico is a leading Japanese food company especially well known for its snack foods, candies and sweets, and their long selling chocolate coated pretzel sticks “Pocky”, also known as “Mikado”, are widely enjoyed...
Imo Karinto: Japanese Candied Sweet Potato Snack
Have you ever heard of “Karinto (かりんとう)”? Karinto is a type of Wagashi confection consisting of deep-fried wheat flour dough candied with brown sugar. Since a long time ago, in Japan the brown candied...
Bourbon Choco Anpan: Chocolate-An Filled Mini Snack Buns
Based on the definition of “An (餡)” given by Wikipedia Japan that I introduced in the previous entry, chocolate cream can also be considered a kind of An paste, because it is made from...
Ika Mirin Age: A Classic Japanese Squid Senbei Cracker
“Shoyu (醤油: soy sauce)” and “Mirin (味醂: sweet cooking rice wine)” are seasonings that represent Japan and they are often used together not only in dishes in Japanese cuisine, but also for Japanese snack...
Dagashi Snack: Baby Star Guru-Guru Monja Yaki
“Dagashi (駄菓子)” is the generic name for cheap Japanese snacks and candies, and those treats were mostly sold in “Dagashiya (駄菓子屋)”, shops that specialize in Dagashi snacks and candies, several decades ago in Japan....
Morinaga Choco Monaka Jumbo Ice Cream
As I wrote about it a while ago, “Monaka (最中)” is a traditional Japanese confection consisting of “Anko (餡子)” sweet Azuki red bean paste sandwiched between 2 crispy glutinous rice wafers. In modern times,...
