Recommendation of Unique Japanese Products and Culture
Product Introduction through My Daily Life in Japan
Kamaboko is a traditional Japanese food with at least 900 years of history. It is a steamed or baked fish cake made with whitefish meat (such as cod, shark, lizardfish, or wrasse), sugar, salt, mirin,...
Seaweed is an indispensable part of Japanese cuisine, commonly used in soup dishes and vegetable salads. Among others, Wakame and Kombu are edible varieties most familiar to us Japanese, and we typically use the...
Most Japanese kids love Dagashi (駄菓子), a snack genre unique to Japan consisting of cheap, relatively small Japanese snacks and candies. Those Japanese treats are cheap. So children can buy various varieties even with little...
When it comes to Japanese deep-fried rice crackers or Age Senbei, “Kabuki-Age (歌舞伎揚)” is the best known in the Kanto region around Tokyo. Meanwhile, people living in the Kansai region around Osaka is most familiar...
When you think of Maruchan’s instant cup noodles, what comes to mind? I guess many will probably bring to mind Maruchan Akai Kitsune Udon or Midori no Tanuki Soba. As a matter of fact, these 2 cup noodles...
Yesterday I talked about the popular Japanese gummy candy Bourbon Fettuccine, but actually, together with it, I bought one more gummy candy at the store. As with the flavor of the Fettuccine Gummi, the other...
Today I went to a drugstore near my house to buy foodstuffs when I craved something sour-sweet, and I headed to its snack and candy section and grabbed a bag of gummy candy called...
Since I was small, I have loved a small chocolate cake called “Choco Pie (チョコパイ)”. Even now, the confection is one of my favorite treats and sometimes I have a craving for it. In...
