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Culture of Niigata


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Food

Niigata is known for the following regional specialities:

�    Uonuma Koshihikari rice

�    Shoyu (soy sauce) and Yofu (western-style) katsudon

�    Shoyu sekihan

�    Noppe stew

�    Wappa-meshi (seafood and rice steamed in a bamboo basket)

�    Sasa-dango (mochi balls filled with red bean paste, seasoned with mugwort and wrapped in bamboo leaves)

�    Poppo-yaki (steamed bread flavored with brown sugar)

�    Hegi-soba (soba from the Uonuma and Ojiya areas, which uses a special kind of seaweed)

�    "Tsubame-Sanj? ramen" (ramen made using thick udon-style noodles)

�    Tochio aburage (aburaage is called "aburage" in Tochio)

�    Kirazu (dishes using okara)

�    Kakinomoto (edible chrysanthemums)

�    Kanzuri (a special seasoning from My?k? made by leaving chili peppers exposed on snow, then adding flour, salt and yuzu)

�    Yasuda yogurt

Niigata in popular culture

�    Snow Country (1947): a novel by Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata set in Yuzawa

�    "Niigata Snow": a track on the LP Aida, released by Derek Bailey in 1980

�    Kura: a film and TV series (1995) based on the 1993 book by Tomiko Miyao, an award winning period piece about a Niigata family and its sake brewery

�    Blue (1996): a manga about high school girls, set in Niigata City, adapted as a film in 2001

�    Whiteout: an action film based on a novel published in 1995

�    My Mother is a Tractor: A Life in Rural Japan (2006), a memoir by Nicholas Klar, written when he was based in Itoigawa in Niigata Prefecture

�    United
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