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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I can usually find what I need from Asian supermarkets in Houston, but I have yet to find any yuzu.
I haven’t seen red rice here in Houston but there are a lot of Japanese products at the local H-marts
The Japanese ingredient that is hardest for me to find in Alberta, Canada is shiratamako.
Seasoned nori for onigiri is basically impossible to find where we are (2 hours south of Sydney)!
Well, it is difficult to get 99% of Japanese ingredients where I am – which is rural New Mexico – but the ingredient I have had the most difficulty find is 天かす. I really wanted to make some okonomiyaki….but it is near impossible to get it!
Red rice is hard to find in our area of New York state.
Thank you for hosting this giveaway! I live on an island so any Japanese product is extremely hard to find here. One thing that I would love to try is Japanese rice.
Fresh yuzu doesn’t seem to be available in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In the Seattle area we have a large variety of Asian store so most ingredients are available! Very lucky!!
I live in the Reno/Sparks, NV area and while we don’t have a Japanese grocery store, we do have Asian stores that carry a lot of Japanese products/ingredients. The only problem that I really have is that a lot of the products are written in Japanese and I can’t read Japanese. Fortunately, through your recipes, I can make a lot of the recipes that my mother made when I was younger.
Thank you for what you do and your website????
Terry Barton
I live where they only have small grocery store sections of Japanese food, so can’t get things like katsuoboshi, instant curry pouches, yokan, Hana arare, Tarako.
Luckily I have a Japanese store around me which is so awesome!
OUCH! As a resident of Brazil, pretty most everything of japanese cuisine is hard to find. But I believe that fresh ingredients are the worst, like Daikon or Shiso leaves.
I just moved from LA, where I could get pretty much any Japanese ingredients, to NJ, where most grocery stores don’t even have an Asian food section. What I miss the most is mirin, I mean real mirin. Currently, I’m using this fake cooking “sake,” which I found at a fancy high end store, as mirin. To me, mirin is one of the crucial Japanese ingredients as soy sauce, miso and sake. I’m totally devastated and missing LA!
Shiso and anything yuzu related, even the concentrate 🙁
I can find umeboshi but it’s soooo expensive!
Thanks for all the work you put in on your site!