Regional food and famous sweets of Mie
Ise pilgrimage traditions, rich coastal fisheries, tea, and simple sustaining dishes connect the prefecture's sacred and everyday food cultures.
Mie is part of the Chubu region. This page lists the guides currently available in English.
9 guides in English
- Ise Henba MochiMie
Henba Mochi encloses smooth azuki paste in a flat round rice cake and lightly grills both sides, leaving distinctive browned marks and a tender chew.
- Mie NagamochiMie
Nagamochi flattens a strip of soft mochi around azuki paste and grills the surface, combining a thin chewy skin, bean sweetness and light toasted...
- Ise Akafuku MochiMie
Akafuku Mochi is an Ise specialty made by covering soft mochi with smooth strained azuki bean paste and is widely recognized as a souvenir of the...
- Ise UdonMie
Ise udon is a Mie noodle dish of exceptionally thick, very soft udon mixed with a small amount of dark tamari-based sauce. The sauce looks intense but...
- Kumano Mehari-zushiMie
Mehari-zushi wraps a generous ball of seasoned rice in a broad leaf of pickled takana mustard, sometimes adding chopped stems inside.
- Kumano Sanma ZushiMie
Sanma zushi lays salted and vinegared Pacific saury over sushi rice in a long pressed form.
- Mie Arame-makiMie
Arame-maki wraps fish or vegetables in strips of arame seaweed and slowly simmers the rolls until the seaweed softens and absorbs the seasoning.
- Mie Ibara MochiMie
Ibara mochi wraps a simple rice cake, often containing sweet bean paste, between leaves of sarutori-ibara, a wild smilax plant found in the region.
- Tekone ZushiMie
Tekone zushi is an Ise-Shima dish of vinegared rice topped or mixed with slices of bonito or tuna marinated in a sweet soy-based sauce. Shiso, ginger...