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Gohan no otomo (rice companions)
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23 varieties
How far can plain white rice carry a meal on its own? This shelf reads like it is built around that question. Some items push with salt, others with umami, others with a change of texture — the strategies differ, but each one plays a supporting role to the rice itself. Drying and salting for shelf life, a few minutes to pull together a fast breakfast, the logistics of moving preserved food from port to inland table: the whole shelf exists because rice needed the help.
Dishes tied to a place4
No single place of origin19
- Chirimen JakoChirimen-jako — dried young sardines
- Furikakedry rice seasoning
- Goma ShioGoma-shio — roasted salt and sesame
- Hikiwari Nattocrushed, skinned soybeans fermented into natto
- Ika no Shiokarasalted, fermented squid
- Iwanoriwild rock-grown nori
- Katsuobushismoked, dried bonito
- Konbu no Tsukudanikelp simmered dark in soy sauce
- Mentaikochili-marinated pollock roe
- Miso Shirumiso soup
- Nametakeenoki mushrooms simmered in soy sauce
- Nattofermented soybeans
- Nori no TsukudaniNori tsukudani — nori simmered dark in soy sauce
- Sake Flakeflaked grilled salmon
- Shoga no Tsukudaniginger simmered dark in soy sauce
- Sujikosalted salmon roe skein
- Tamago Kake Gohanraw egg over rice
- Tarakosalted pollock roe
- Tororograted mountain yam
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Before you go
- How to use a convenience storeA quick guide to choosing rice balls and hot snacks, buying coffee, paying by cash, IC card, or tap payment, using the eat-in corner, and sorting your trash — the basics for a first visit.
- How to shop at a supermarketHow to choose prepared foods, sashimi, and packaged sushi, when discount stickers tend to appear, region-only specialties, buying by weight, the checkout and bagging flow, and sampling etiquette at a local supermarket.
- Food for Obon and the harvest moon (tsukimi)A guide to the meat-free shojin ryori and somen served at Obon, and the tsukimi dango offered on the night of the harvest moon.