Product Introduction through My Daily Life in Japan
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...
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...
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...
Today, a wide variety of Japanese instant ramen are available on online marketplaces outside of Japan. Many of those are actually well recognized in Japan. However, some instant noodles that are popular in Japan...
Kani Miso (蟹味噌: meaning Crab Miso) is a popular sushi topping looking like miso (fermented soybean seasoning) paste, which is my favorite food. Every time I go to a conveyor belt sushi bar or Kaiten...
As you know, Tempura is a traditional Japanese food made from one piece of ingredient coated with flour batter and deep-fried in plenty of oil. But have you ever heard that Tempura also comes in...
UHA Mikakuto is one of the leading Japanese confectionery companies, together with Kanro and Morinaga. Kanro’s signature product is the candy with the umami of soy sauce “Kanro Ame (カンロ飴)“, Morinaga is especially famous...
If you plan to stroll around a city in Japan, you will probably see two types of sacred spots there. One is the Otera (お寺) temple, and the other is the Jinja (神社) shrine,...
