Chubu (Nagoya) Street Food

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7 street foods from Chubu (Nagoya), Japan: Hitsumabushi, Tebasaki, Misokatsu, Kishimen and Gohei Mochi and more. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.

Street foods of Chubu (Nagoya)

Nagoya Ritual · Eel Rice, Three Ways Hitsumabushi The dish exists because of broken dishware — a Nagoya restaurant's delivery bowls kept shattering on the way back from customers, so the owner… Grilled eel sliced over rice is served in a large wooden tub meant to be divided into portions: eaten plain first for the grilled aroma, then with condiments like scallion, wasabi and… Nagoya Bar Food · Double-Fried Wings Tebasaki The story goes that in 1963 a supplier delivered wings by mistake; wings were then used mostly for soup stock, so Furaibo's founder fried them and… Chicken wings are double-fried until the skin turns shatteringly crisp, then tossed in a sweet-savory soy and mirin glaze and dusted heavily with black pepper and sesame seeds, eaten with… Yabaton Original · Red Miso Pork Cutlet Misokatsu Yabaton's story is that in 1947 a customer at its stall dipped a fried pork skewer into the neighboring pot of miso-simmered doteni stew; the… A breaded, deep-fried pork cutlet is coated in a thick, dark, sweet-salty sauce built from Aichi's long-fermented Hatcho red miso, served sliced over rice or on its own with shredded… Nagoya Station Noodle · Flat Wide Udon Kishimen Nobody is sure where the name comes from: theories trace it to Imokawa's flat noodles, to pheasant (kiji) meat once used as a topping, or to noodles… Very wide, flat wheat noodles — thinner than standard udon and quicker to cook — are served hot in a light soy-dashi broth topped with shaved bonito flakes, fried tofu, sliced fish cake… Mountain Skewer · Grilled Miso Rice Gohei Mochi It is said to have begun with lumberjacks in the Kiso area who pressed rice onto scraps of timber and grilled it over a bonfire with miso. Pounded non-glutinous rice is moulded onto a flat wooden skewer, brushed with a sweet, nutty miso or soy sauce and grilled, sold at roadside stalls and old post towns in the mountains of… Nagano Dumpling · Nozawana Filling Oyaki (Nagano Stuffed Dumplings) Nagano listed oyaki as a prefectural intangible folk cultural property in 1983, when no other prefecture had yet designated a food that way. Wheat or buckwheat dough wrapped around fillings such as stir-fried nozawana pickles, dried daikon, eggplant or pumpkin, then griddled and steamed or baked, sold hot from shops and stands… Nagoya Kissaten Culture · Red Bean Butter Toast Ogura Toast Nagoya lore credits a café called Mitsuba with creating it around 1921, after staff noticed students dunking buttered toast into zenzai, a sweet red… Thick-cut slices of bread are toasted, spread with butter and topped or paired with sweetened azuki bean paste (ogura-an), typically served at old-school kissaten (coffee shops) as part of…

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