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【ICHIBA JUNCTION】 What’s Satsumaage?

– Mother’s cooking taste. Good match with any dishes –
Satsumaage is one of the deep-fried fish paste cakes. It was good as a disposal method of fish which is too small to cook for sashimi or simmered dishes, or have a lot of small bones in it when high fish catches.

【ICHIBA JUNCTION】 Super Umami-rich Dashi Stock

“Soup stock” is indispensable to Japanese foods. It is not exaggeration for Japanese people even if saying that I eat every day.Noodles, stewed food, hotpot and pickles can use it widely; literally “all-around seasoning”. A pinch of salt or light soy sauce to dashi stock, and the taste and fragrance just takes off for the cosmos.

【ICHIBA JUNCTION】 MONTHLY SPECIAL in MARCH & APRIL 2012

It is the arrival in “the autumn of the appetite ” to be able to fully taste seasonal food while getting deepen in autumn, and healing the stomach which weakened in the summer in a harvest season.
For Monthly Special of Ichiba Junction, rice is an appearance in such a season.

【ICHIBA JUNCTION】 Yamagataya Seaweed Gift Series Arrival!

Yamagataya was established in Nihonbashi, Tokyo by Sohachi Kubota who came out of Oshu in the Edo era (1764); and their history is more than 240 years. The name of the shop yearned for the far-off hometown Yamagata prefecture and to be named.
Yamagataya where continue following tradition from generation to generation and still notice at a position as a long-established store of “nori seaweed” in Japan.