Japanese Cuisine - Local cuisine

Saga
Kure tofu
Saga Local cuisine

Kure tofu

In general tofu, soy milk is made into a solid substance using bittern, but in godofu, soy milk is mixed with crumbs and starch and heated to coagulate. Due to the stickiness of...

Saga
Matsubara Okoshi
Saga Local cuisine

Matsubara Okoshi

It is an old-fashioned handmade rice confectionery with plenty of brown sugar sprinkled on the surface of the revitalization, named after “Niji no Matsubara,” one of Japan's top...

Saga
Ikashumai
Saga Local cuisine

Ikashumai

Yobuko's specialty “Ikashumai”, one of Kyushu's representative souvenirs, originated in the kitchen of the underwater restaurant Manbo. It started when it was served at the unde...

Saga
Boiled ara
Saga Local cuisine

Boiled ara

Karatsu Kunchi is the annual autumn festival of Karatsu Shrine in Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture, and it is a grand festival with gratitude for the harvest. While men from the to...

Saga
Funankogui
Saga Local cuisine

Funankogui

In the Saga Plain that spreads over Saga prefecture, there are many funas that have been stretched over and over again by waterways breeding. “Funankogui” is a live funa wrapped...

Saga
Keelan
Saga Local cuisine

Keelan

It is a confectionery made by steaming lightly powdered non-glutinous rice and wrapping bean paste in a thinly pounded skin. There are koshi-an and tsubu-an in bean paste. There...

Fukuoka
Yawata Gyoza
Fukuoka Local cuisine

Yawata Gyoza

Workers working at the government-run Yawata Steel Works had severe physical fatigue and preferred to eat foods that were cheap and had stamina. Also, with the start of trade in...

Saga
Ureshino Onsen Yudofu
Saga Local cuisine

Ureshino Onsen Yudofu

Onsen yudofu is a specialty dish of Ureshino Onsen, characterized by the texture of tofu that melts in your mouth and the umami of tofu dissolves in the soup and becomes cloudy....

Saga
cicilian rice
Saga Local cuisine

cicilian rice

The cicilian rice is fried meat and vegetables such as tomatoes and lettuce on top of rice and seasoned with mayonnaise. It is a local gourmet served in restaurants and coffee s...

Fukuoka
Mojiko grilled curry
Fukuoka Local cuisine

Mojiko grilled curry

The standard grilled curry is rice topped with curry, cheese, and eggs and baked in an oven, and the taste, appearance, and ingredients vary depending on the restaurant. There i...

Fukuoka
Umegae mochi
Fukuoka Local cuisine

Umegae mochi

The chewy, thin dough is baked crisply, and the inside is plump cooked azuki beans from Tokachi. Tsubuan uses the auspicious donation salt (Amakusa salt), which is said to be au...

Fukuoka
Kashiwa rice onigiri
Fukuoka Local cuisine

Kashiwa rice onigiri

In northern Kyushu, chicken is called “kashiwa” and has been popular as an ingredient since ancient times. It is said that the spread of kashiwameshi was triggered by the ekiben...