Japanese Cuisine - Local cuisine
Mikuni Burger
Mikuni Burger is a specialty hamburger made with local ingredients from Fukui Prefecture. Minced meat patties made from blocks of beef from Fukui prefecture and domestic pork, ...
Water manju
Since ancient times, Ogaki has been blessed with rich groundwater and is known as the “City of Water.” “Water manju” was created in the latter half of the Meiji period due to th...
Tsukemono steak
Tsukemono steak is a local dish from the Hida region of Gifu prefecture. The normal way to eat tsukemono is often to eat it as it is, but in Hida Takayama, Gifu prefecture, the ...
Mitarashi dango
Mitarashi dango are skewer dango topped with kudzu bean paste, a sugar soy sauce, which is widely popular in Gifu prefecture. Most of them are sweet sauces, and the perfect bal...
Kakamigahara Kimchi
Kakamigahara Kimchi is a specialty dish of Hamigahara, which is characterized by the fact that it contains a special product of Kakamigahara city “carrot” and “pine tree”, a spe...
Katsuyama oyaki
“Oyaki” loved by Katsuyama citizens is a Japanese confectionary made by wrapping slightly sweet azuki bean paste in mochi kneaded with mugwort and baked until browned. The savo...
Sake manju
Sake manju is one of the sweets representing the Three Kingdoms. “Sake manju,” which many people from Fukui know, is a traditional Japanese confectionary, and it is a food with...
Deep-fried tofu
Fukui prefecture has the highest consumption of deep-fried tofu in Japan. It seems that in Fukui, where the belief in the Jodo Shinshu sect is popular, dishes using deep-fried ...
Kuzu manju
Kuzumanju is a simple manju that has been made since long ago in Obama, and is a simple Japanese confectionary made with koshian wrapped in kneaded kudzu. The taste of early su...
Sesame tofu
The head temple of the Soto sect “Eiheiji” in Eiheiji-cho, Fukui Prefecture, is a grand and beautiful temple with 800 years of history and many important cultural properties. I...
Hana Rakkyo
“Flower shallots” from Mirihama in Mikuni, Fukui Prefecture are cultivated in sand dunes stretching along the coast of the Sea of Japan. Since Mirihama's sand is relatively fin...