
By Rachel on December 3, 2007
Crackers as a snack food can be so very blah. Sembei, Japanese rice crackers, while having more variety than their Western counterparts, still taste amazingly similar when you get down to it, and also fall prey to being blasé.
There are several varieties of Japanese rice crackers, which have have been explained before, but the [...]
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By Rachel on November 7, 2007
Umebachi is the name of this delectable looking dagashi. To briefly recap what dagashi are: Dagashi are cheap, inexpensive Japanese candy and snacks which are similar to American “penny candy” in price point but not always quality. In fact a few dagashi are of very good quality; however, the majority of dagashi [...]
Posted in Japanese Snack Reviews | Tagged , brown sugar, dagashi, japanese candy, japanese sweets, karinto, kuro sato, kurosato, ogashi, sato, traditional japanese desserts, traditional japanese sweets, umebachi, wagashi
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