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【What is Kinzanji miso?】 Kinzanji miso is a kind of miso produced mainly in Chiba, Shizuoka, and Wakayama prefectures. Since Kinzanji miso was a preserved food for eating summer vegetables in the winter at the temple, it contains white...

【What is Shiraae?】 Shiraae is a sweet-flavored tofu salad in Gunma prefecture that looks like a white batter in which seasonings such as tofu, white sesame, and white miso are ground together and mixed with vegetables. Japanese used mu...

【What is Agedashi tofu?】 Agedashi tofu (known as deep-fried tofu) is a Japanese dish in which tofu is deep-fried after being coated with a batter or potato starch and served with dashi or soy sauce. Tofu is coated with potato starch an...

【What is Harihari nabe?】 Harihari nabe also referred to simply as 'Harihari,' is a type of hot pot dish made with whale meat and mizuna (potherb mustard). Because whale meat is difficult to come by these days, many restaurants substitu...

【What is Yudoufu?】 Yudoufu is a tofu-based hot pot dish that is popular in Kyoto, Japan. Locals heated the cubed tofu and water in a pot lined with kombu seaweed before serving it with soy sauce and condiments. Distinguished by its sof...

【What is Karaage?】 Karaage refers to a Japanese cooking method using frying oil, and the cooked dish. Ingredients are lightly coated with flour or potato starch and fried in oil. In general, many people imagine karaage as an ingredient...

【What is Zosui?】 Zosui is a traditional Japanese food that locals season with soy sauce and miso, boiled with other foods (meat, seafood, mushrooms, and vegetables), or cooked from rice until soft, similar to rice porridge. In Japan, i...

【What is Kakiage?】 Kakiage is a type of tempura made by wrapping small pieces of seafood, vegetables, and other ingredients in a flour batter and deep-frying them in cooking oil. Before eating, locals seasoned it with "tentsuyu" or "sa...

【What is Shougayaki】 Shougayaki is a traditional Japanese dish of marinated grilled meat in ginger juice. It is a pork-based recipe, and shoga-yaki simply means "pork ginger-grilled." Locals in Japan make this by combining grated ginge...

【What is Monaka?】 The monaka is a Japanese confectionery of red bean paste sandwiched between mochi or rice flour skins. In Japan, locals called this skin, "skin seed, confectionery seed, and monaka seed." Monaka seeds have a faint aro...