By Rachel on May 21, 2008
In Japan, if you have a jones for a snack, you’re covered. The huge amount of street food and vendors alike ensure you need not walk four blocks without something to eat in between. Thanks to anime, Westerners are introduced to a wide variety of these intriguing street foods. Okonomiyaki turns up in Tsubasa, takoyaki [...]
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By Rachel on April 14, 2008
In Dango Digest, Part One, we got acquainted with the vast world of dango. In the second part of Dango Digest, let’s take a peek at how to actually make the dango. Part Two has two basic recipes for dango, some sauces, plus two “rare” dango recipes: Hanami Dango and Botchan Dango.
This recipe is the [...]
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By Rachel on April 10, 2008
When you’re having fun on the go and you’re looking for snackage, food which is as mobile as you is always a good thing. In Japan, country of a thousand festivals, food mobility is an important factor to enjoying the celebrations. Many festival snacks come in ball form (takoyaki), on a stick (yakitori) or both, [...]
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By Rachel on February 25, 2008
Senbei, okaki, and arare, the elusive Japanese rice crackers. Or I should say, good senbei, okaki and arare are elusive. I’ve had my fair share of senbei and arare mixes, most of which have been underwhelming in terms of excitement and enjoyability. They all seem to taste the same with varying [...]
Posted in Japanese Snack Reviews | Tagged arare, j-candy, j-snacks, japan, japanese candy, Japanese confections, japanese cookies, japanese crackers, japanese cuisine, japanese food, japanese goodies, japanese snacks, okaki, rice crackers, senbei, tsuna age arare, tuna age arare
By Rachel on January 17, 2008
It’s not much of a secret that I love Japanese sweets, aka wagashi. In my free time, I go on the .jp and search out new wagashi to research and try. I spend hours pouring over websites and trying my hand at translating katakana.
The only thing that really gets me through the massive [...]
Posted in Japanese Recipes | Tagged japanese cakes, Japanese confections, japanese cuisine, japanese desserets, japanese food, Japanese Recipes, japanese sweets, kashi, koshi an, okashi, shiro-an, tsubu an, tsubushi an, tsubushi anko, wagashi, wakashi
By Rachel on December 17, 2007
In the West, who would ever believe that anything as common as beans could ever become anything more than kick-ass burritos and tasty tail-gate chili? Beans have gotten a bad rap through the years as being poor man’s food and the “musical fruit”. Derisive songs have been sung mocking the bloating attributes of these tiny [...]
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By Rachel on October 17, 2007
Kinako doesn’t sound good as a dessert ingredient; when translated, kinako means “toasted soy bean flour” and the kanji are written as “yellow flour” (is that like yellow snow?) To some people, the thought of soy= tofu= *blech* and the thought of beans used similarly= WTF?!
However, kinako is absolutely delish and I add it [...]
Posted in Japanese Snack Reviews | Tagged candy, japanese candy, Japanese confections, japanese desserts, japanese snacks, japanese sweets, kinako, nejiru, Sanontou, Sanontou Kinako nejiru, soy flour, wagashi
By Rachel on August 8, 2007
There’s a hierarchy of confections and snacks (okashi) in Japan, for those who didn’t know. At the top of the Japanese sugar mountain are wagashi.
Wagashi, as denoted by the wa-, are the traditional sweets of Japan which are painstakingly handcrafted with the finest ingredients. They include daifuku, dango, and botamochi/ ohagi. Many [...]
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