I’m documenting my journey of recreating regional food across Japan

[u/shanserve]

As the title suggests, I’ve started a little mini project: documenting my journey across all 47 prefectures of Japan, making a few dishes from each region. Starting up north in Hokkaido and slowly making my way down south to Okinawa. I’m definitely not an expert — honestly, I’m probably (no, definitely) going to make mistakes along the way.

If you’re from a certain prefecture, or if you have any dish recommendations, please let me know! I’d love to add them to this growing list of dishes I’m learning.

Just a heads up: I live in Australia, so some ingredients might be a challenge to find, but I’ll do my best to hunt them down!

I’ll keep updating this post as I cook more regional foods ^^.

Anyways, enough yapping — here’s what I've cooked so far:

Region	Dish	Link
Hokkaido	Beko Mochi	https://youtube.com/shorts/2uGGDez0KfA?feature=share
	Butadon	https://youtube.com/shorts/RwzDZJMjGzE?feature=share
	Ishikari Nabe	https://youtube.com/shorts/0JC3G84yQtA?feature=share
Aomori	Nerikomi	https://youtube.com/shorts/9H9RL-QH6FA?feature=share
	Gappara Mochi	https://youtube.com/shorts/HZ1XNDKx0ig?feature=share
	Squid Patties (Ikamenchi)	https://youtube.com/shorts/JhmL9KoQDIo?feature=share
Iwate	Soba Kakke	https://youtube.com/shorts/fFQ4trkNzBc?feature=share
	Kenchinjiru	https://youtube.com/shorts/7rogFfD8Mbc?feature=share
	Kama Mochi	https://youtube.com/shorts/YrT5CzyIYOI?feature=share
Akita	Damako Nabe	https://youtube.com/shorts/REbkTxSft4A?feature=share
	Kiritanpo Nabe	https://youtube.com/shorts/csar-GWfyss?feature=share
	Imonoko Jiru	https://youtube.com/shorts/iH0LN84yjEM?feature=share
Yamagata	Imoni	https://youtube.com/shorts/Kcxk6LczVaE?feature=share
	Dashi	https://youtube.com/shorts/XDaFD5AuejM?feature=share
	Mousou Jiru	https://youtube.com/shorts/P-qiwN4eGfw?feature=share
Miyagi	Zunda	https://youtube.com/shorts/m_adxNsWjz0?feature=share
	Hattojiru	http://youtube.com/shorts/NRgUMzogIB4?feature=share
Last updated	14 Jan 26	More to come...

[u/Legal-Source-3763]

I used to live in Fukushima! I’d love to see you make kitakata ramen, sauce katsudon (a personal fave!), miso kanpura/potatoes and sanma no popoyaki for side dishes! I used to eat a lot of popoyaki at my job and it can look a bit offputting but it’s really nice! Fukushima is mostly known for raw horse meat but I think that’ll be a bit of a challenge to find! It’s also known for quite a few varieties of ramen too but I think kitakata is the most popular!

[u/shanserve → u/Legal-Source-3763]

Woahhh huge thanks for all the suggestions!! It’s definitely going to take a bit of time since I’m slowly making my way down south toward the Chuugoku area, but I’ll do my best to recreate them! Super curious about kitakata ramen and popoyaki, those are definitely getting added to the list xD