Regional food and famous sweets of Tottori
Sea of Japan seafood, sand-dune agriculture, mountain vegetables, and hearty rice dishes characterize this lightly populated prefecture.
Tottori is part of the Chugoku region. This page lists the guides currently available in English.
11 guides in English
- Aoya Igai MeshiTottori
Igai meshi removes mussels from their shells and cooks the meat with rice in soy-seasoned dashi, letting the grains absorb the shellfish liquor and...
- Daisen OkowaTottori
Daisen okowa is a savory glutinous-rice dish from communities around Mount Daisen in Tottori. Mountain vegetables, mushrooms, burdock, carrot...
- Inaba OiriTottori
Inaba oiri toasts dried rice or puffed grains, coats them with mizuame and shapes the crisp mixture into clusters or balls. Brown rice, wheat flour...
- Kani JiruTottori
Kani jiru is a Tottori winter soup made with female snow crab, locally called oyagani and also known as seikogani in parts of the Sea of Japan coast...
- Kurayoshi Utsubuki Park DangoTottori
Utsubuki Park Dango presents three small dumplings covered in white, matcha-green and azuki-colored bean pastes on a skewer, giving each box a neat...
- Sanin Ago NoyakiTottori
Ago noyaki seasons ground flying-fish meat with salt, sake, mirin and sometimes sugar, wraps the paste thickly around a rod and rotates it over heat...
- Tottori Dondoroke-meshiTottori
Dondoroke-meshi is an eastern and central Tottori rice dish made by stir-frying crumbled tofu with vegetables such as burdock and carrot before...
- Tottori Furoshiki ManjuTottori
Furoshiki Manju is a small square steamed bun with a moist brown-sugar dough around smooth azuki paste, evoking a tied wrapping cloth.
- Tottori Inaba no Shiro UsagiTottori
Inaba no Shiro Usagi wraps mild yellow bean paste in a tender rabbit-shaped baked shell, often marking the ears and face in detail.
- Tottori Tofu ChikuwaTottori
Tofu chikuwa combines tofu with fish paste to make a pale, tender Tottori specialty with gentle soybean sweetness and restrained seafood savor.
- Western Tottori Nonoko MeshiTottori
Nonoko meshi fills large fried-tofu pouches with washed uncooked rice, burdock, carrot and other vegetables, closes them and slowly simmers the...