Sunday, August 23, 2009

"Matsuri" Festival Food

Summer is a time for many festivals in Japan. One of the best things about every festival is the wide variety of foods! 夏はフェスティバルのための最も良い時間です。
Azabu Juban Matsuri, Tokyo




The streets of Azabu-Juban are lined wall to wall with many yukata clad people hungrily scowling the street-venders for summer delectables!

Working in the food booths is hard and smokey. The shear volume of hungry people and gross inventory over 3-days is staggering!
"Squid tentacles anyone?"

Octopus Dumplings. Small whole octopi are cooked in eggy batter and formed into round, bite-size morsels covered it sauce and eaten with a toohpick.

Fried potato spirals were a big seller this year.The whole spud is sliced and stretched out on a skewer then fried-like a long potato chip....on-a-stick!

You can choose from various dipping flavors: cheesy, spicy, seaweed, or plain sea salt. Miki-chan here chose a "double dip extra CHEEZY"

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