Food

This week I write about food of Kyoto. In Kyoto, there are many confectionery which is called wagashi   (In Japanese, It is represented 和菓子 ”和” means "Japanese" , ”菓子” means "confectionery " ） So I want to introduce wagashi as a culture of Kyoto.

Wagashi is that candy made ​​in the traditional manufacturing method of Japan. Sometimes eat with tea in the tea ceremony and, It has not only good taste but also has nice appearance as candy craft. Because they often go with mattya tea, Japanese tea, uji tea and other tea, oil is not so much used. Relatively few types of main raw material, for example, Sugar, syrup, rice, wheat, and red beans, is produced many kinds of wagashi. 

Next, I show you example of wagashi.

Yatsuhahsi

  
Yatsuhashi is a kind of rice cracker that is made from streamed the steamed sugar, rice powder, Nikki (cinnamon, cinnamon) It was born in Kyoto sweets shop in 1689. When you put out to the store, wrapping fruit, chocolate,　bean paste by this dough, it is cut to a certain size.

 I remember that when I went to Kyoto on a school trip, I bought Yatsuhashi for my family as a souvenir. Yatsuhashi is very popular as a souvenir. People who buy confectionery as a souvenir of sightseeing in Kyoto climbed to 96 percent and, sales of Yatsuhashi accounted for 45.6% of the total. So, you can say that it is a typical souvenir of Kyoto.

Dango
  

 Dango is also kind of wagashi. There are many kinds of dango in Kyoto, so I introduce about it.

・ taste of salty-sweet
 It is dango leaving a mark of grill and putting salty-sweet bean paste which has resulted from boiled soy sauce, sugar, mirin, potato starch, and water. It is called amakara dango, shouyu dango, yaki dango Mitarashi dango.(How to call it is different from store or by region) In Japan, this seasoning is common.


・ taste of soy sauce

Dango taste soy sauce is made without adding sugar.This is rare type of dango.

・ taste of salt

There are many ways of eating, for example, winding nori, putting soy sauseand wasabi. It is like ways of eating sushi. And, It has many species, isobe dango, mitarashi dango and so on. 

Dorayaki

In general, the name of dorayaki went from the fact that the form of dorayaki similar to gong one's. In addition, it is favorite food of doraemon which is character of Huziko F Huzio’s work "Doraemon" . As a tie-up product, once dorayaki named after doraemon is manufactured and sold from such Yamazaki Baking Co., Ltd. In the other hands, Bunmeido sold dorayaki grilled mark of doraemon. 


In other, there are plenty of traditional sweets in Japan.( uiro, konashi, kinton, imagawayaki, sakuramoti, ohagi, daihuku) But, I think Kyoto confectionery has a aesthetic appearance when compared to these. My favorite part of Kyoto food is it. They will tell you that it is not only just to eat. You can say the height of the art of Kyoto is being hidden here as well.




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