I’m documenting my journey of recreating regional food across Japan

As the title suggests, I’ve started a little mini project: documenting my journey across all 47 prefectures of Japan, making a few dishes from each region. Starting up north in Hokkaido and slowly making my way down south to Okinawa. I’m definitely not an expert — honestly, I’m probably (no, definitely) going to make mistakes along the way.

If you’re from a certain prefecture, or if you have any dish recommendations, please let me know! I’d love to add them to this growing list of dishes I’m learning.

Just a heads up: I live in Australia, so some ingredients might be a challenge to find, but I’ll do my best to hunt them down!

I’ll keep updating this post as I cook more regional foods ^^.

Anyways, enough yapping — here’s what I've cooked so far:

Region Dish Link
Hokkaido Beko Mochi https://youtube.com/shorts/2uGGDez0KfA?feature=share
Butadon https://youtube.com/shorts/RwzDZJMjGzE?feature=share
Ishikari Nabe https://youtube.com/shorts/0JC3G84yQtA?feature=share
Aomori Nerikomi https://youtube.com/shorts/9H9RL-QH6FA?feature=share
Gappara Mochi https://youtube.com/shorts/HZ1XNDKx0ig?feature=share
Squid Patties (Ikamenchi) https://youtube.com/shorts/JhmL9KoQDIo?feature=share
Iwate Soba Kakke https://youtube.com/shorts/fFQ4trkNzBc?feature=share
Kenchinjiru https://youtube.com/shorts/7rogFfD8Mbc?feature=share
Kama Mochi https://youtube.com/shorts/YrT5CzyIYOI?feature=share
Akita Damako Nabe https://youtube.com/shorts/REbkTxSft4A?feature=share
Last updated 6 Dec 25 More to come…

by shanserve