Sushi, Ramen, Tempura is good, but Japanese snacks are high quality and delicious! What the first snack that comes to your mind when you think of a Japanese snack? Rice cake? Sweets made of red bean paste? How about a rice cracker?
Rice cracker
A rice cracker is a typical Japanese snack, and we call it “senbei” in Japanese. Babies eat rice cracker to get their teeth stronger, students eat it while they are studying, and adults eat it with beer! Elder people like it because they have been eating it since they were young. In other words, most Japanese people love rice cracker!
Rice cracker is a snack made from rice. It tastes usually salty, the majority of Japanese rice crackers are seasoned with soy sauce. But there are many kinds of rice crackers like it’s covered with dried seaweed, rice cracker with crystal sugar on top, it’s coated with sugar and more.
It shapes usually palm size and it’s about 1 centimeter in thickness. It’s crunchy and hard.
Bakauke
A Japanese snack company “Befco” sells BAKAUKE. It’s a rice cracker, shapes like a big rice. Bakauke has several kinds of flavors like soy sauce and green dried seaweed, potato and butter, deep fried Bakauke with sesami or sweet potato taste.
They are so popular in Japan!
Carbonara flavor and truffle flavor
Befco launched new type of bakauke rice cracker. It tastes truffles and carbonara. It’s like a Spanish bar taste and goes well with beer. That is to say it is appealing to adults.
The truffles flavor one has an aroma goes into your nostrils but not too much. The carbonara taste one has strong black pepper flavor.
It’s individually wrapped. Two pieces of same flavor packed one back.
One piece is just right to hold by two fingers and it’s a good shape to eat.
Summary
There are many fascinating foods in Japan not only sushi, ramen but also pocketable snacks what you can buy at Japanese convenience stores or supermarkets in a breeze. Moreover, it’s good for souvenir. It’s individual wrapped so that you can distribute to your friends!
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