Specialties Niigata Prefecture of bamboo dumpling of Japan

Here, it come out Echigo it is that of Niigata.

Regional specialties that gave birth Komedokoro Echigo "bamboo dumpling". It has had a color to it familiar to people that life from long ago. Currently also have been familiar to many people, are shipped all over the country as Niigata souvenir, and bamboo dumpling that came to be exported to overseas in part.

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Has been manufacturing and selling bamboo dumpling current "suppli

ers" are about 50 hotels in Niigata city, it seems 100 hotels inside and outside in Niigata Prefecture. Others, professional non-producers (for example agricultural cooperatives and agricultural corporations) shipments of production, or individual farmers, including to those walking selling like to market in is also said to be more than 2 billion yen, it is sold as a commodity or will be how many of bamboo dumpling who are. Also, as has been done in the past many homes, production of as for self-consumption have been conducted in the still fairly home (farmers often), and if you include up to this minute, the production of bamboo dumpling equivalent ones I will think. Given the position of as specialties, I think so that there is something profound in its awareness and popularity even compared to similar sweets of other prefectures.

 
Rice and rice for Niigata people crackers, etc. there sake such as Niigata specialty number, bamboo dumpling is also in close contact with the life in a different sense, it might be said to have built a special position as a regional cuisine.

The material of bamboo dumpling rice, red beans, mugwort, bamboo grass, is what all is a rush at hand, such as hills.
Bamboo dumpling is a rustic sweets only wrapped mugwort rice cake with bamboo
Bamboo dumpling will make by mixing Kamishin powder and rice flour. This is a minority among the dumpling is Amata as a local confectionery transmitted to all over the country, this has become the "crisp good as rice cake rice cake" properties of bamboo dumpling


Story of bamboo

Sasa, also has been said to be estimated about 200 million tons in Japan. Sasa Japanese name is as it is referred to as the "Sasa" in the academic name, making it the world common terms. Because in English but some people who are called Banpu glass (Bamboo grass) but bamboo is different from grass, Sasabanbu (Sasa bamboo) and is considered more accurate.

When you try tease the history of Japan, bamboo has been treated as sacred from Jindai. When depends on the book "Manyo flower notation", impair the Amaterasu is mood, when you hid appearance in heaven of Iwaya, heaven Uzume life which is said to be the god of arts (rain Bruno buried my no-mikoto), but leaves Kotake heavenly Kogu mountain (Sasaha) to have, and you may have to have danced dances. Groundbreaking, etc. Even today, you can tension turned and rope making a Kitake in four directions, in bamboo leaves a good Tanabata for example, put a strip of wish, bamboo I have been treated as sacred.


Bamboo drug efficacy, it is said that there is a wide range of efficacy such as stomachic intestines, diabetes, diuretic, heart disease, high blood pressure, anemia disease, frail health, insomnia, bad breath, skin diseases, cuts-the-rough skin.


Story of wormwood

Wormwood is known as edible and medicinal plants from old, Kusa mochi in the Kanto, in Kansai is called mugwort rice cake. Kyoto when you pluck the leaves of wormwood in Goshouchi was required a license tag.


Azuki bean paste of

In China, a long time ago, there was a custom of using the red beans on the amulet. For example, eat red bean porridge on the winter solstice, it is said to have paid the plague by eating Put the red beans to headband to Boys' Festival. In Japan, you can use such as annual events and rituals regardless of Kichiji-Kyoji the red beans. In addition, red beans are also used to ward off evil from Zokushin of having a hidden power.

Bamboo dumpling originally are made from rice flour. and do you have the nutrients that the US can contribute how healthy it does not mention here. And sugar in the bean paste. Or sugar is supplying the energy required how to life forms are as guidance.


In other words, everything that is the raw material of bamboo dumplings consist of the bounty of nature, the work is of such just to have the effect of accelerating hold the both healthy for us human beings.


. Bamboo dumpling as local cuisine

Bamboo sunny day dumpling is still Dano of Boys', and is intended season rice planting is also green bamboo leaves time that ended become vivid. Scent of

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wormwood also a fresh, enough to forget also tired of rice planting, it is taste of Harbinger telling the most fun summer of joy in all year round. This bamboo dumpling will use a good rice flour, says that it has made really a lot.
It is exactly Niigata taste itself.
Bamboo dumpling would not be an exaggeration to say that he grew up in specialties that are representative of Niigata beyond the region and era until today.