From my Japanese wife:
Treats:
Kakinotane
Ohagi
Yukimi Daifuku
Food
Charashi Zushi
Oyakodon
Katsudon
Treats:
Kakinotane
Ohagi
Yukimi Daifuku
Food
Charashi Zushi
Oyakodon
Katsudon
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Japanese Treats/Snacks
- Thread starter Aurica
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Yatsuhashi is divine.Yatsuhashi
I'm also a big fan of Dorayaki with chestnuts inside.
Finally, in winter time they would sell something that was mochi on the outside, and a mix of whipped cream/ice cream on the inside with a strawberry in the center. That was great.
Tayaki (the fish shaped pastry with red bean) is really good as well.
It's a bit more elaborate and traditional, but a good Anmitsu is hard to beat.
What is iiiiiit
Guess I'll have to google :D
Edit: omg it's like a mochi but with some cinnamon? Like a cinnamon bun mochi? :O
I didn't even know they made them with cinammon? I didn't taste any from the ones I've had. I'd say it's definitely nothing like a cinnamon bun.
Basically like a flatter/triangular daifuku with a cinnamon taste, as you say. If you like cinnamon and red bean you'll like it.
They come in a lot of different flavors. Anko is probably the most popular, but lemon and strawberry are my favorite. If you go to Kyoto, you'll see a ton of shops selling them and a ton of people buying gift boxes to give to coworkers.
Going to the dessert floor of a nice Ginza department store is as close to going to to Willy Wonka's factory as possible. The most beautiful, tasty and creative desserts imaginable.
Imagine this times 100
Imagine this times 100
Some good snacks/treats: dango, anpan, 蒸しケーキ/蒸しパン (mushi cake/pan) steamed cake/bread, taiyaki, warm vending machine drinks (fall/winter), yaki imo (fall/winter), onigiri, niku-man, karaage, kuri (chestnut) flavored foods (fall/winter), and sakura flavored foods (spring).
Any good place to get some of those kitkats in the US? I've tried the local markets, but the only things I can find are the green tea ones. My niece loves KitKats, so I thought they might be a neat gift for her. I guess I can get them off of Amazon or something, but every time I've ordered chocolate from them it's been melted.
I love absolutely all of it, but Japanese style crepes were my favorite thing. Took me ten years after coming back home to finally find a place that makes them. Also, korokke are the best form of potato in all existence.
Ichigo daifuku (イチゴ大福) ?
Anyone want to fund me a trip to Japan? I could probably clear out a konbini and a couple of food stalls after reading this thread...
Momiji Manju
They come with all kinds of fillings. I stuck with the more traditional ones (from a western standpoint) like chocolate pudding and custard but my wife tried ones with bean paste and green tea fillings.
They're even better deep fried!
I avoided melon pan for so long because I'm not a big fan of melon and assumed they were melon flavoured. Wasn't until a little shop opened in my in-laws town (Inage in Chiba) which had queues every morning, that I actually tried proper freshly cooked melon pan. So good.
Butter pan from the local bakery was getting very popular in recent years too - just like a softer saltier croissant but yummy.
Love toast bread too. It's like twice as thick as any regular bread so it's really soft in the middle after toasting
Butter pan from the local bakery was getting very popular in recent years too - just like a softer saltier croissant but yummy.
Love toast bread too. It's like twice as thick as any regular bread so it's really soft in the middle after toasting
You can get them deep fried? I'm listening...
(Might have even seen them while visiting Miyajima but I can't remember 100%.)
Hell yeah! Miss me with those peanuts though, just give me the seeds.
OP is seriously missing some savoury rice crackers. How else am I meant to enjoy cheap, Japanese beer?
Dried Chicken ramen
But yeah rice crackers are good. Partial to the happy tan(?) ones that we used to buy for our kids - slightly savoury-sweet and more puffed up
Yep! And you definitely saw them there, I ate one there once!
It was so good we went back twenty minutes later.
When I'm in Japan I just get fucking loaded up on custard pastries. Fill me the fuck up, I'll eat them all.
Also taiyaki. There's a small stall at the end of Akihabara that does various different types and they're all 100/150 yen if memory serves me right. I'll always buy a few, one of each flavour, and scoff them. Custard, red bean, green tea, whatever.
Also taiyaki. There's a small stall at the end of Akihabara that does various different types and they're all 100/150 yen if memory serves me right. I'll always buy a few, one of each flavour, and scoff them. Custard, red bean, green tea, whatever.
Goma Tamago is one of my favorite Tokyo souvenir snacks:
White chocolate coat covering a thin layer of sponge cake, with black sesame paste at the center. Yum!
White chocolate coat covering a thin layer of sponge cake, with black sesame paste at the center. Yum!
Yeah, I gotta say, those cheap convenience store mix drinks are a super nice change of pace for someone who doesn't drink beer at all.Just need to accompany all these treats with my favourite Japanese treat that my friends and I very much enjoyed as we strolled the streets of Tokyo and Osaka:
There are only so many Whisky Highballs a man can drink... Although after 10 days I was super glad it was Highballs instead of drinks mixed with sugary soda.
Being a citizen of Osaka, I stan takoyaki until the end of time.
As far as sweet goes, I love shiroan inside mochi. It's to die for.
Just need to accompany all these treats with my favourite Japanese treat that my friends and I very much enjoyed as we strolled the streets of Tokyo and Osaka:
Personally this is my jam:
But you really can't go wrong. Being able to get fucking drunk on under $10 is pretty fucking rad.
I will admit that once in a while, I mix a Strong Zero Bitter Orange into my lineup to get a little zing.
Shit, yeah, I love chiitara It's one of my favorite drunk snacks.ctrl+f tara
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Chiitara is a godsend. It's a mix of dried cod (tara) and cheese. It goes well with beer.
Chips
Japanese chips kinda suck, unless you like chips with subtle flavor. I like like these stinky pizza chips that I only buy when I hate myself. Y'know what? Just eat better stuff.
You just ain't eating the right kinda chips OP.
Also mentioned above already but shoutout to the Lawson Karaage.
Now that you mention it, We got off the JR station at Arashiyama to go to the Temple and Bamboo grove, he had chicken at the family mart. Nvm, Family mart
Deep fried momiji manjuu. Don't really care for the regular ones, but they're amazing deep fried. Come in cheese, cream, and anko flavors.
I'm a Black Thunder fiend. I guess I'd describe them as tasting kinda like chocolate covered Oreo. There are a lot of different flavors though. The kinako one, the cookies and cream one, and the most recent corn ones are my favorite. There's also an ice cream version sold only at 7-11 in the summer months.
Hiroshima style okonomiyaki. I guess this could either be a meal or a snack, depending on how drunk you are. As good as Osaka okonomiyaki is, the Hiroshima version is vastly superior. Instead of being just a batter mixture, the Hiroshima one contains noodles and is cooked in layers. There's a shop near my place that has jalapeno as a topping option, which is amazing.
Pizaman. I could eat these every single day.
i brought some back from japan and shared some with my old coworkers. One told me it tasted like grass and spit it out...
The FamiChiki from Family Mart. Seriously the hot fried chicken at counters at convenience stores in Japan is just perfect on the go food. I could literally live off it, and probably intend to next time I go back. Cheap, tasty, not healthy. Win win win
Also the 7/11 egg sandwiches. Basically like creamy smooth filling, vaguely eggy, and beautiful. Crusts cut off, bread so soft Hnngggggg.
Also the 7/11 egg sandwiches. Basically like creamy smooth filling, vaguely eggy, and beautiful. Crusts cut off, bread so soft Hnngggggg.
I love chestnut so I love that you can get so many Japanese sweets with sweet chestnut fillings.
There's also a sweets restaurant here where I can get taiyaki filled with nutella and banana, with a drizzle of honey on top. Love it.
There's also a Japanese grocery store that has a tiny conbini corner that occasionally has strawberry daifuku. They get fucking enormous strawberries and wrap red bean and mochi around them. Super delicious.
There's also a sweets restaurant here where I can get taiyaki filled with nutella and banana, with a drizzle of honey on top. Love it.
There's also a Japanese grocery store that has a tiny conbini corner that occasionally has strawberry daifuku. They get fucking enormous strawberries and wrap red bean and mochi around them. Super delicious.
I've had that, and it's good, but this is different. The mochi layer is thinner, it's bigger, and it has frozen whipped cream or ice cream around the strawberry. It doesn't have any red bean.
When I was there they had a cheap convenience store pastry with yellow chestnut cream on top of a bun with more chestnut cream inside. It was very sweet, but tasted amazing.
Deep fried momiji manjuu. Don't really care for the regular ones, but they're amazing deep fried. Come in cheese, cream, and anko flavors.
I'm a Black Thunder fiend. I guess I'd describe them as tasting kinda like chocolate covered Oreo. There are a lot of different flavors though. The kinako one, the cookies and cream one, and the most recent corn ones are my favorite. There's also an ice cream version sold only at 7-11 in the summer months.
Hiroshima style okonomiyaki. I guess this could either be a meal or a snack, depending on how drunk you are. As good as Osaka okonomiyaki is, the Hiroshima version is vastly superior. Instead of being just a batter mixture, the Hiroshima one contains noodles and is cooked in layers. There's a shop near my place that has jalapeno as a topping option, which is amazing.
Pizaman. I could eat these every single day.
Okonomiyaki is definitely getting into meal territory. But yeah I'm a fan of Hiroshima style.
i'm no longer working there
side note, love that they are now at a lot of the korean, chinese and japanese supermarkets near me
Deep fried momiji manjuu. Don't really care for the regular ones, but they're amazing deep fried. Come in cheese, cream, and anko flavors.
I'm a Black Thunder fiend. I guess I'd describe them as tasting kinda like chocolate covered Oreo. There are a lot of different flavors though. The kinako one, the cookies and cream one, and the most recent corn ones are my favorite. There's also an ice cream version sold only at 7-11 in the summer months.
Hiroshima style okonomiyaki. I guess this could either be a meal or a snack, depending on how drunk you are. As good as Osaka okonomiyaki is, the Hiroshima version is vastly superior. Instead of being just a batter mixture, the Hiroshima one contains noodles and is cooked in layers. There's a shop near my place that has jalapeno as a topping option, which is amazing.
Pizaman. I could eat these every single day.
Took till the second page for Black Thunder? This place is wrong.
Also, where the hell is choco monaka jumbo?!
Edit: since the OP is asking to advise a friend, it depends on where they are going. Good bet though is to go to any of the main stations as they will have endless booths of local specialty snacks or upcoming treats. I'm so glad Bake came to the US.