Our reporter tries amemonaka, the traditional sweet from Niigata Prefecture

This traditional confection is pretty to look at, but how’s the taste? Our Japanese-language reporter Tasuku Egawa recently discovered a shop in Tokyo’s Shibuya district called Omotesando Niigatakan N’espace, which specializes in local goods originating from Niigata Prefecture. This discovery was particularly exciting because he’d heard of a particular sweet from Niigata called amemonaka (飴もなか) […]

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