Japanese Cuisine - Local cuisine
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Powdered seaweed
“Peach seaweed” is a natural natural food made by drying the best natural seaweed from the sea near Tojinbo in Fukui prefecture, dried in the sun and loosened by hand. In the e...
Kumagawa waste
As for Kumagawa kuzu, kudzu from Kumagawa has become so popular that the Confucian scholar Rai Sanyo from the Edo period commented in a letter that “Kumagawa is more elegant tha...
White shrimp burger
Toyama's representative seafood, white shrimp, is designated as “Toyama Prefecture's fish” along with firefly squid and yellowtail. The meat is sweet and has a texture that mel...
Koshi no Ruby
“Koshi no Ruby” is the brand name for midi tomatoes produced in Fukui prefecture. The variety “Koshi no Ruby,” which is the source of this brand name, was cultivated at Fukui P...
Oblong kelp
The difference between “oboro kombu” and “tororo kombu,” which is thinly processed kombu, is the difference in how to shave it. For grated kelp, many pieces of kelp are pressed...
Punch beans
In the past, in Fukui, it was difficult to obtain rich eating habits under snowy weather conditions, so there were many ways to make good use of harvested ingredients. Uchimame...