Cheese Kakidane (Kaki no Tane) Crackers from Bourbon
Kaki no Tane (柿の種) is a classic Japanese rice cracker known as Kameda Crisps in some countries outside Japan. As you may know, seasoned with soy sauce and red chili pepper, the snack features...
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3 Classic Japanese Cheese Snacks You Should Try
Cheese goes well with a wide range of foods and almost always makes what it touches satisfying. Because of that, snacks often come with cheese, and Japanese ones are no exception, as seen in...
Meiji Coffee Beat: Coffee Beans-like Chocolate Grains
“Meiji (明治)” is a leading Japanese food company with a long history. Many of the products are very familiar to us Japanese, and one of the representative examples is chocolate. Among others, these five...
Shoyu: 5 Common Types of Japanese Soy Sauce
When I think of seasonings of Japanese origin widely used in many countries, what comes to my mind right away is “Shoyu (醤油)”, known as soy sauce in English. Many people probably have used...
Ika no Kunsei (Ikakun): Shredded Smoked Squid Snack
As I wrote several times before, Japan has a large variety of snack foods made from squid, which include these dried squid snacks, and this Dagashi treat. In addition to the items above, there...
Sasa Dango: Niigata’s Specialty Rice Dumpling
The prefecture where I live, Niigata, is very famous as a production area of rice in Japan. As the rice tastes good, several specialties made from it are well known nationwide, and representatives are Sake...
Sudako-San Taro: Famous Dagashi Vinegary Surimi Snack
Dagashi (駄菓子) is a snack genre unique to Japan, made up of cheap and relatively small Japanese snacks and candies. As the cheapest is available for only 10 yen (about 0.1 USD), such treats...
Akafuku Mochi: Ankoro Mochi Rice Cake from Ise, Mie
Sweet red bean paste or Anko (餡子) is one of the essential ingredients for traditional Japanese confections or Wagashi (和菓子). For example, when I think of Wagashi sweets with Anko paste, what comes to my...
