Isobe Yaki Butter Shoyu Mochi Rice Cake
As winter is the season of Mochi (餅) for Japanese people, I have often eaten the plain rice cake since the beginning of December. Mochi is typically served in soup (for example, O-Shiruko, O-Zoni), but...
Category: Snacks
Otsumami: Tsumami Tara Dried Cod Fish Snack
“Otsumami (おつまみ)” is the Japanese word for snacks eaten with alcoholic drinks. The representative examples include Kamaboko fish cake, Surume dried squid, Kaki no Tane crackers, and Cheese Tara or Chiitara. Actually, the majority...
Umaibo (Puffcorn): What is the Yasai Salad Flavor?
Dagashi (駄菓子) can’t be told without Umaibo (うまい棒). For the unfamiliar, Dagashi is the collective term for cheap, unique, and relatively small Japanese snacks and candies whose price ranges from 10 yen (about 0.1...
Wakame vs. Kombu (Kelp): Edible Seaweed in Japan
As you may know, seaweed is an indispensable part of Japanese food culture, and especially, wakame and kombu, also known as kelp, have been widely consumed in Japan since the old days. Today, supported by...
Kombu-Pan: Toyama’s Specialty Kelp Seaweed Bread
Today when I was eating dinner watching TV, local specialty foods of Toyama Prefecture were introduced on a TV show. Among them, there was one thing that I had never heard of before. Seaweed...
Japanese Kit Kat Autumn Sweet Potato Flavor
Although winter is just around the corner here in Japan, yesterday, when I was shopping at a drugstore, I came across an autumn flavor of Japanese Kit Kat. There are 2 Kit Kat Japan-limited...
Taberu Niboshi: Japanese Dried Anchovy Snack
“Niboshi (煮干し, にぼし)”, also known as “Iriko (いりこ)“, is boiled and dried infant sardines commonly used when making soup stock or dashi in Japanese cuisine. It is often referred to as dried sardine in...
Japanese Kit Kat Onsen Manju Flavor Chocolate
Today when I went out shopping, I stopped by a supermarket and came across a rare Kit Kat by chance that had been sold only in Japan’s Onsen hot spring resorts in 2018. That...
