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Fukui
Wakasa Guji

Wakasa Guji

Wakasa (Fukui Prefecture) was once called the “Food Country)” as a country where food was allowed to be served to the emperor. Amadai caught in Wakasa Bay, a treasure trove of ...

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Powdered seaweed

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...

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Kumagawa waste

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

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...

Toyama
Firefly squid dishes

Firefly squid dishes

Firefly squid live in deep water, but around March they gather along the Toyama Bay coast to lay eggs, and they are landed only for a fixed period of time each year. Firefly sq...

Fukui
Koshi no Ruby

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...

Toyama
White shrimp bowl

White shrimp bowl

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
Oblong kelp

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...

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Punch beans

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...

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Ton-chan

Ton-chan

When talking about Ono city located in the eastern part of Fukui prefecture, “hormones” cannot be missed. There are over 30 stores that sell hormon-yaki in the city, and horumo...

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Fukui plum

Fukui plum

Fukui plum cultivation has a long history, and it is said that it originated in Wakasa Town (formerly Mikata Town Irazumi) during the Tenpo era (1830-1844) in the Edo period. P...

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Five-colored shellfish

Five-colored shellfish

It is a “cypress scallop (cypress scallop)” with vivid colors such as yellow, orange, purple, brown, and red. The name comes from the fact that it resembles an aristocrat fan f...