Regional food and famous sweets of Nagasaki
Japanese, Chinese, and European influences meet in distinctive noodles, banquet dishes, and historic sweets.
Nagasaki is part of the Kyushu & Okinawa region. This page lists the guides currently available in English.
19 guides in English
- Goto Kankoro MochiNagasaki
Kankoro mochi pounds steamed glutinous rice with rehydrated kankoro, thin sun-dried sweet-potato slices, into a dense tan-to-brown loaf with natural...
- Goto UdonNagasaki
Goto udon is a slender yet resilient hand-stretched noodle from the Goto Islands, traditionally made with camellia oil.
- Nagasaki CastellaNagasaki
Nagasaki castella is a dense, moist sponge cake made mainly from eggs, sugar, flour, and syrup. Its fine crumb, rich egg aroma, and coarse sugar...
- Nagasaki ChamponNagasaki
Nagasaki champon is a hearty noodle soup loaded with pork, seafood, and vegetables. Its distinctive noodles are cooked in the broth rather than boiled...
- Nagasaki CruzNagasaki
Cruz sandwiches a lightly ginger-scented white-chocolate cream between thin crisp wafers stamped with a cross.
- Nagasaki HatoshiNagasaki
Hatoshi spreads seasoned shrimp paste between slices of white bread and deep-fries the sandwich until the exterior is crisp and the filling springy...
- Nagasaki HikadoNagasaki
Hikado simmers small, evenly diced daikon, carrot, shiitake and fish or chicken in soy-seasoned broth, then stirs in grated sweet potato to thicken...
- Nagasaki IkkokoNagasaki
Ikkoko wraps a small amount of brown-sugar filling in wheat-and-starch-syrup dough; during baking the filling melts into the inner wall, leaving a...
- Nagasaki KarasumiNagasaki
Karasumi salts whole mullet roe sacs, carefully desalts, presses and air-dries them into firm amber lobes with concentrated marine umami and a waxy...
- Nagasaki Sara UdonNagasaki
Sara udon tops crisp thin noodles or browned thick noodles with a glossy sauce of seafood, pork, and vegetables.
- Nagasaki Shippoku CuisineNagasaki
Shippoku cuisine seats guests around a round table to share large platters in a course that combines Japanese techniques with Chinese and...
- Nagasaki Turkey RiceNagasaki
Nagasaki Turkey rice crowds pork cutlet, seasoned pilaf, spaghetti and salad onto one plate, often adding demi-glace or curry sauce so several...
- Omura-zushiNagasaki
Omura-zushi layers sweetened vinegared rice with seasoned fish flakes, shiitake, burdock, carrot, kamaboko and other fillings in a large mold, presses...
- Sasebo BurgerNagasaki
Sasebo Burger is a collective name for made-to-order hamburgers sold in Sasebo, with each shop choosing its own patties, bacon, egg, cheese...
- Sasebo Lemon SteakNagasaki
Lemon steak quickly cooks thin slices of beef on a hot iron plate and coats them in a fragrant lemon and soy-based sauce.
- Shimabara GuzoniNagasaki
Guzoni fills a clear or lightly seasoned dashi with mochi, chicken, fish, burdock, yam, lotus root, napa cabbage, shiitake, tofu, kamaboko and...
- Shimabara IgirisuNagasaki
Igirisu dissolves dried red igisu seaweed in rice-bran liquid or soybean cooking water, kneads in carrot, fish, peanuts and other fillings, then...
- Shimabara KanzarashiNagasaki
Kanzarashi serves small, smooth rice-flour dumplings chilled in water and finished with a light sweet syrup.
- Shimabara and Tsushima RokubeNagasaki
Rokube presses a sweet-potato dough through a perforated rokube-zuki directly into boiling water, producing short, dark, softly chewy noodles served...