My aunt told me about these popular Kyushu Pancakes (九州パンケーキ) and sent me several packages for me and JOC readers to try!
The ingredients used in this pancake mix all came from different regions within Kyushu. Wheat flour (小麦粉) is from Oita, sugar from Okinawa and Kagoshima, red rice (赤米) from Fukuoka, germ rolled barley (胚芽押麦) from Saga, glutinous millet (もちきび) from Nagasaki, black rice (黒米) from Kumamoto, rice (うるち米) from Kagoshima, and sprouted brown rice (発芽玄米) from Miyazaki.
The texture of the pancakes is unique with slightly grainy texture from 7 kinds of grains. They are not bothering at all and the pancakes are so fluffy and moist and they were really delicious!
If you are in Japan, you can purchase this pancake mix from Amazon and Rakuten. It’s so popular that my aunt had to wait after ordering them.
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Nice shiso leaves and fresh wasabi root are sometimes hard to find.
Wow these pancakes are full of a variety of grains that are hardly seen here in the States – I would love to try them!
I think it is still difficult to find a lot of Japanese ingredients in the grocery store as there are not very many devoted especially to that – they are mostly Asian supermarkets that carry more Chinese/Filipino brands in my area. I would love to be able to find more authentic healthful Japanese ingredients (like these pancakes!) as it appears a majority of stores stock snacks, noodles, rice and teas.
The hardest ingredient that is so hard to find where I live is Shiso Leave. Even though, I live close to a few Japanese Supermarket but somehow I never get to have my hands on them.
It’s difficult to find hon-mirin (本みりん)because I think the alcohol content makes it hard to import? I’d like to try 本みりん over the mirin type seasoning
Shiso leaves and bonito flakes
I wanna enter!
The japanese 7 spices is hard next to impossible to find here.
Lots of love
Skye
Wow, we can’t get most of these ingredients here. We’re in the middle of the country and the last “big” (what a subjective opinion!) city between Chicago and Seattle, but I have never even heard of red rice or black rice. So, you can definitely say that we can’t get them here.
I have yet to find good rice flour for dango, or cooking grade matcha… Many perishable ingredients that are somewhat specific (like mitsuba) are also unavailable… Actually, anything beyond the basics can be kind of difficult.
Able to find Japanese ingredients in Singapore just that the cost of it is high ):
My daughter became addicted to biwa when she was in Japan for school. They’re called loquats here in the US. We’ve managed to find canned ones via Amazon, and there are some cough products containing loquat (mostly found in Chicago’s Chinatown or on-line). However, despite the fact that the Japanese market we frequent, grocers in Chinatown, and even some local grocers carry imported produce from Japan, we have yet to find any that carry fresh loquat. I have found some farms in Texas that apparently sell them, but they charge a huge price per pound and then at least the same again to ship them. I just can’t afford upwards of $70/pound for these fruit. I really wish they were available at markets I go to. (I CAN find lychee and many other items, but have never found a single loquat.)
Have been fortunate to find ingredients at my Japanese market.
My country doesn’t offer a lot of japanese ingredients ,well we do have japanese ingredients but not a lot
Preserved sakura blossom.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen red rice or black rice at the Asian stores I go to..
Kyushu….my parents are/were (now deceased) from Kyushu!!……this would really be a treat. Most all Japanese goods are available here as I live in the SF Bay Area……..Tokyo Fish is the place!!