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Desserts & Sweets

Ikinari Dango

Hand-held grilled rice dumplings on bamboo skewers, brushed with sweet soy glaze - a Japanese festival and hanami snack sold from roadside stalls and eaten on the spot.

Japan · Nationwide Japan (especially Kyoto, Tokyo, and the old Tōkaidō route)

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Imagawayaki

Round Japanese wheel-cake cooked in a heavy cast-iron clam mould, filled with sweet red bean paste and sold at shrine approaches and matsuri stalls.

Japan · Countrywide - strongest in Tokyo, Osaka and shrine towns

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Rice Dishes

Shirasu Don

Shirasu don is a Japanese rice bowl topped with tiny boiled whitebait, prized for its delicate briny flavour and best eaten fresh near fishing ports like Shizuoka.

Japan · Shizuoka (Pacific coast)

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Kusa Mochi

Kusa mochi is Japanese mugwort rice cake, green from pounded yomogi leaves, traditionally filled with sweet red bean paste in spring.

Japan · Japan-wide in spring, with distinctive regional styles in Kyoto, Kantō and Sendai

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