Japanese Cuisine - Local cuisine

Fukui
Sake manju
Fukui 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...

Fukui
Kuzu manju
Fukui Local cuisine

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...

Fukui
Deep-fried tofu
Fukui Local cuisine

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 ...

Fukui
Oda tofu
Fukui Local cuisine

Oda tofu

“Oto tofu” is made in the former town of Oda (Otacho, now Echizen Town) in Fukui Prefecture, and is a staple tofu in Fukui. There used to be 3 Oda tofu, but now the only thing ...

Fukui
Sesame tofu
Fukui Local cuisine

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...

Fukui
Hana Rakkyo
Fukui Local cuisine

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...

Fukui
Powdered seaweed
Fukui Local cuisine

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...

Fukui
Kumagawa waste
Fukui Local cuisine

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...

Toyama
White shrimp burger
Toyama Local cuisine

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...

Fukui
Koshi no Ruby
Fukui Local cuisine

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...

Fukui
Oblong kelp
Fukui Local cuisine

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...

Fukui
Punch beans
Fukui Local cuisine

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...