New Articles

Gifu
Kusamochi

Kusamochi

Kusamochi (kusamochi) is a popular confectionary known as a specialty of Kaizu City. The richly flavored mochi dough made with natural wormwood has a strong scent of mugwort, a...

Gifu
Misogi dango

Misogi dango

Miso dango is a traditional confectionary from Hashima City. It is a simple dish made by wrapping koshian in rice flour dumpling dough, putting it on 2 skewers, applying dengaku...

Hiroshima
Etajima's specialty “soybean udon”

Etajima's specialty “soybean udon”

Since ancient times, soybean cultivation was popular in Etajima City because of low rain. The origin of 'soybean udon' was eaten at ceremonial occasions such as handmade udon ma...

Okinawa
Deep-fried glukun

Deep-fried glukun

Gurukun (Japanese name Takasago), which is also designated as Okinawa's prefectural fish, lives in warm waters south of Amami Oshima, and is a white fish caught all year round, ...

Okayama
Okayama ramen

Okayama ramen

Okayama ramen is a type of ramen developed mainly in Okayama city. Ramen from food stalls and barrack huts is said to have originated in the central urban area of Okayama immed...

Yamagata
Boiled carp

Boiled carp

It is the representative dish of Yonezawa's carp dish. It is a local dish made with carp cut into rings and boiled in sugar, soy sauce, and liquor. Carp boiled so soft that it ...

Aomori
Kenojiru

Kenojiru

Keno-jiru, a local dish that is eaten extensively from the Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture, is a soup made with finely chopped vegetables cooked in kelp soup stock. Ingredie...

Miyagi
Miyagi Zundamochi

Miyagi Zundamochi

Zundamochi is a mixture of green soybeans (edamame) before soybeans are boiled in salt and crushed in a mortar, added sugar and mixed into rice cakes. It has been used as a hous...

Hokkaido
Ishikari Nabe

Ishikari Nabe

Ishikari-nabe is a local dish of Hokkaido that uses salmon as the main ingredient and seasoned with miso. Vegetables such as salmon and bones, and tofu, onions, cabbage, daikon,...

Aomori
Shimokita miso shellfish grilled

Shimokita miso shellfish grilled

It is said that the beginning of miso shellfish grilling in the Shimokita Peninsula was a simple thing in the Edo period when fishermen in Mutsu Bay used scallops as a substitut...

Tochigi
Shimotsukare

Shimotsukare

On the first day of February (the first morning of the afternoon of February), it is an event meal that is served to Inari Shrine along with red rice. A thankful dish called luc...

Tokyo
Fukagawa Meshi

Fukagawa Meshi

Originally it was a cover for fishermen near Fukagawa, and it was a dish for the common people. In the Edo period, the dishes were made using ao-goats, but clams and clams are a...