Nara pickling Nara pickling is a kind of pickled product made of melon, cucumber, ginger and other vegetables pickled with distiller's grains. This kind of food originated in the Heichengjing era, with Nara as its capital, around the 1970s. According to legend, it is pickled with sediment accumulated under turbid wine, so Nara stain is called "sediment stain".
Among various Nara stains, Guanara stain is the king of Nara stains. It tastes crispy on the outside and soft and slightly sweet on the inside, and it has a faint wine smell, which is very suitable for eating with white rice.
Although many stores sell Nara dyes, there are also Nara dye shops that sell special Nara dyes such as persimmons, burdock, carrots, onions, cantaloupes and mushrooms. When visiting Nara, you might as well buy it while shopping.
Persimmon leaf sushi persimmon leaf sushi is one of the local dishes in Nara Prefecture. It is made by putting pickled mackerel slices on a big white rice, then wrapping them with sterilized persimmon leaves and fermenting for a few days. In ancient times, a large amount of salt was sprinkled on the captured mackerel and then transported from Kumano Beach to Yoshino and Ogiyo. Therefore, this road for transporting mackerel was named "Mackerel Street".
Nara locals sliced salted mackerel, put it on rice, wrapped it in persimmon leaves, fermented it to make sushi, and then enjoyed it on the day of the ceremony. In the early years, mackerel was the only ingredient, and now there are various persimmon leaf sushi such as salmon, snapper, shrimp and sea eel.
Legend of Three-wheel Plain Noodle In 1, more than 200 years ago, edible wheat rope was made in the three-wheel area around Yamato City, Nara Prefecture, which was the embryonic form of plain noodle. Three-wheel vegetarian noodles are characterized by slender and elastic taste. During the Edo period, visitors to the Ise Shrine commented on the three-wheel vegetarian noodles: "Yamato three-wheel vegetarian noodles are famous things, as thin as silk and as white as snow", and their popularity began to spread throughout the country. Now there are many shops selling vegetarian noodles near Shanbian Road, and there are also many shops in Nalai Town where you can taste vegetarian noodles.
There are tea porridge all over Japan, but as the saying goes, "the morning of Yamato begins with tea porridge", and tea porridge is the most famous in Nara. Although there is only a small amount of rice in tea porridge, it can still fill the stomach because of the addition of fried soybeans and broad beans, which can be said to be a local food that emerged from the wisdom of daily life.
Nara tea porridge is characterized by refreshing, non-sticky and long history. Monks began to eat tea porridge in the Cang era, and later it gradually spread to ordinary people. It is said that until the 1930s in Showa (A.D. 1955), every household often ate tea porridge.
The water quality of Yoshino is excellent, and because it is located in a cold place, it has a very suitable terrain for Ge Fen. Therefore, the quality of "Yoshino Bunji" made by traditional methods in Yoshino, called "Yoshino Sun", is very good and has a high evaluation. After processing, pueraria lobata becomes a variety of foods such as pueraria lobata, pueraria lobata fruit and pueraria lobata, which can be tasted in Yoshino, where it is produced, and can also be enjoyed in several specialty stores in Nalai Town.
Nara's Japanese wine was deeply loved as a top wine in Sakuramachi era. According to legend, the Li Zheng Temple in Nara laid the basic technology of modern wine-making, so Nara is also called "the birthplace of Japanese wine". The Great God Shrine in the third round of Sakurai City also enshrines the life of Dionysus Austria. Every year on June 5438+065438+ 10/4, a "brewing prayer festival" is held. Brewers from all over the country will gather here. After the festival, Sugiyama (an ornament hung in front of the store to announce the brewing of new wine) will be sent to wineries all over the country.
At present, there are 29 wineries in Nara Prefecture, some of which have activities to provide wine tasting experience. Besides, there are many specialty stores or fancy restaurants in Naraichi where you can try Japanese wine.
Daiwa Tea The tea produced in Nara is called "Daiwa Tea" and is mainly planted in the Daiwa Plateau in the east of Nara. Due to the high altitude and large temperature difference between day and night, the river plateau often condenses dew in the morning. In the moderate humidity and sunshine generated by fog, sweet and soft tea can be cultivated and high-quality tea can be made. In addition to basic green tea and baked tea, Yamato tea with different flavors such as Japanese black tea can also be tasted in Nara.
Persimmon Dessert Persimmons in Nara Prefecture have been planted since the era of arrogance and kingship (about 4 th to 7 th centuries), and now it is one of the best persimmon producing areas in Japan, so Nara Prefecture has developed many persimmon-related desserts. For example, there are many kinds of Japanese desserts with grapefruit peel as sandwich and persimmon wrapped. Yoshino is rich in persimmon drunken bell, persimmon jam, persimmon vinegar and persimmon cream.
It goes without saying that people don't know how to shave ice. In fact, Nara is a "shaved ice shrine". There are two ice-related shrines in Nara Prefecture, the Icehouse Shrine. Every year, people from ice-related industries come here to worship the gods in the name of "ice festival", and there will be activities of "Ice House Snow Festival". Because of this background, shaved ice can be eaten in Nara all year round, not just in summer.
There are many kinds of shaved ice. There are some special methods to make syrup from Mu Si, and some local foods such as Daiwa tea or strawberries from Nara Prefecture. The shaved ice provided by each store is full of creativity and ingenuity.
Do you like these delicious foods? Next time you come to Nara, Japan, you can try these delicious foods!