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’m from Hong Kong and luckily it’s easy to get most of the Japanese ingredients over here 🙂
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We have a lot of Japanese market stores here in Hawaii so it’s easy to find Japanese ingredients and products. Hardest is understanding the instructions since everything is in Japanese.
It’s the dashi!!!! and I see that dashi is used in many recipes!
Btw I love your simple and easy-to-follow recipes. I’ve made teriyaki chicken following your recipe! Thank you!
-Quality Umeboshi (only found MIC umeboshi here in NZ ><)
The picture of 南高梅 makes me mouth-watering.
-And Shiso! I haven't had any luck finding it in NZ. I'd love to grow one in my garden.
I love how these Kyushu pancakes use all natural and local ingredients. I just read about it elsewhere recently so I am so glad to see the giveaway (fingers crossed).
I cannot find koji rice!!! Ume plums are also hard to find in my area 🙁 (Ottawa, Canada) For some sauces, I have to make them from scratch (tonkatsu ou okonomiyaki), which isn’t too bad!
Cheers!
Trying to find the skal drink back in California. I like it better than calpis.
Dashi packets! They finally started carrying kombu and katsuobushi, but I really would like packets for quick and easy. 🙂
The hardest to find ingredient is Ume Konbu.
I’m a little lucky living in Melbourne, Australia to gave a big Asian community around. I find most ingredients I need but I can honestly say I’ve never heard or seen these pancake mixes before – even my friend in Japan hasn’t told me about these prepacked pancake mixes. I’m a bit excited to give them a try – I love trying new ingredients 🙂
I live in Seattle and it’s pretty easy to find Japanese ingredients at the Japanese supermarket here at a reasonable price. It’s just we don’t always have Okinawan Sweet Potato available. It’s really sweet and yummy when steamed or baked.
Most things are hard to find close to me, I have to travel into the city to go to Asian supermarkets for most things. The thing that I want recently that I can’t get is kombu or bonito flakes!
We have most things here:)
Yuzu
The one ingredient I’m realm struggling to find is glutinous rice flour which is sad because I love mochi and other desserts made with it !
I live in the east coast of the US, and glutinous millet is hard to find here.