Regional food and famous sweets of Iwate
Mountain villages, fertile basins, and the Sanriku coast support distinctive noodles, grains, seafood, and communal hospitality.
Iwate is part of the Hokkaido & Tohoku region. This page lists the guides currently available in English.
11 guides in English
- Iwate GanzukiIwate
Ganzuki is a moist steamed confection made mainly from wheat flour and brown sugar, often finished with black sesame seeds and found in both darker...
- Iwate Gomasuri DangoIwate
Gomasuri Dango seals a rich, flowing black-sesame syrup inside a small soft mochi dumpling, releasing an intense roasted aroma in one bite.
- Iwate HittsumiIwate
Hittsumi rests a simple wheat-and-water dough, stretches it thin by hand and pinches off irregular pieces directly into a broth with chicken, fish...
- Iwate Imonoko-jiruIwate
Imonoko-jiru is an autumn soup built around tender local taro, simmered with meat, mushrooms, tofu or konnyaku in a soy- or miso-seasoned broth...
- Iwate Kamome no TamagoIwate
Kamome no Tamago encloses yellow bean paste in a thin castella-like layer and white chocolate coating, forming a smooth egg-shaped confection.
- Iwate Mamebu-jiruIwate
Mamebu-jiru is a soup from Yamagata-cho in Kuji, Iwate, containing small flour dumplings wrapped around pieces of walnut and brown sugar alongside...
- Iwate Miso Bakke MochiIwate
Miso bakke mochi mixes finely chopped spring butterbur buds and crushed walnuts with miso, sugar and wheat flour, adds water until mochi-like, then...
- Iwate Nuppei-jiruIwate
Iwate nuppei-jiru pours plenty of grated nagaimo over tofu, dried shiitake and scallion in a soy-seasoned clear soup, giving the broth a smooth...
- Morioka JajamenIwate
Morioka jajamen pairs broad, chewy wheat noodles with a dense meat-miso sauce, cucumber, and green onion. Diners customize the bowl with grated...
- Morioka ReimenIwate
Morioka reimen is a cold noodle soup known for translucent, exceptionally chewy starch-enriched noodles, a clear beef-based broth, kimchi, sliced...
- Wanko SobaIwate
Wanko soba is an Iwate dining tradition in which an attendant repeatedly adds bite-size portions of soba to a guest's small bowl. It is especially...