Regional food and famous sweets of Tochigi

Koin Monaka is Koundo Honten's Ashikaga sweet: square crisp wafers shaped after historic seals and signatures connected with Ashikaga School, Bannaji...

Goyotei Cheesecake is Cheese Garden's round baked cheesecake from Nasu, Tochigi. It has an even golden top and a dense, fine-textured pale interior...

Kanpyo maki is a thin sushi roll filled with strips of dried bottle gourd that have been rehydrated and simmered in soy sauce, sugar, and stock. The...

Miya no Kariman is Kourindo's glossy dark-brown karinto-style bun: a thin fried brown-sugar skin encloses smooth red-bean paste.

Nikko Jingoro Senbei is Ishidaya's thin, elongated rice cracker, known for a light crisp bite, a gentle saltiness and the aroma of butter oil. It is...

Nikko and northern Tochigi imo-gushi threads roughly three or four steamed or boiled small taro onto a skewer, lightly grills them and coats them with...

Nikko yuba is lifted from the center of heated soy milk, producing a double layer with notable thickness. In Nikko it is written 湯波 and often becomes...

Mimi udon cuts wheat dough into small pieces, pinches two corners into an ear shape and simmers them with vegetables in soy broth.

Shimotsukare combines daikon and carrot grated on a coarse oni-oroshi with New Year salted-salmon head, Setsubun roasted soybeans, fried tofu and sake...

Chitake soba stir-fries edible chitake milkcap mushrooms with eggplant, then builds a fragrant warm soy, sugar and mirin broth around them. Kanuma...

Ebi daikon simmers winter daikon with small river shrimp in a soy-and-sugar seasoning so the vegetable absorbs the shrimp's savoriness.

Tochigi kanpyo egg soup softens rehydrated dried-gourd strips in dashi and finishes them with ribbons of beaten egg.

Moro no nitsuke simmers cuts of salmon shark, called moro in Tochigi, with ginger, soy sauce, sugar, mirin and sake. The mild flesh absorbs the...

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Utsunomiya gyoza is a citywide family of dumplings made by many specialist and Chinese restaurants, not one certified recipe. Size, wrapper...