Sable is a good suvenier

The Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints has a nice English web site, they do a good job for foreign customers. In this month, they started the Ukiyoe Christmas gift for foreign people. They print woodcut prints in original ways and ship to foriegn counrties. If you have a Japanese art lover, it's good gift, I think.

Akihabara (this is free tour site) is electric and otaku culture town, Kappabashi is kitchen town, Shin-Okubo is Korean town in Tokyo and what is Sugamo? Sugamo is called Harajuku (the most popular area for teens, I call it toy-box) for grandma. I found this nice article in pingmag. When I went there, I bought this "Daigaku Imo", it's a fried potato coated with caramel. Here is the recipe, if you want to try it.

Pingmag is a great site, they have interesting posts a lot always. A little bit old, but I found this post "TOP 6 of Tokyo｡ﾇs Coolest Souvenirs". I am not sure they are the coolest souvenirs but it's interesting what's cool for foreign people. By the way, this is a post about popular souvenirs of Japanese for Japanese. All are sweets.

By the way, I like hachiko sable cookies. Sable is a popular souvenir in many areas with their local unique motif. Is that the same with your place? The most well know one is this dove sable, it's a souvenir of Kamakura. Its package and bag is really simple and cute. In Enoshima, they have Enoden sable of their cute mono line Enoden that runs through houses. In some places people can't enter their homes without crossing the railway. Of course, Tokyo Tower, Tokyo Disney Land, Hello Kitty has sable. Japan national diet building has bill sable, Yokoham has Kurofune sable ( Kurofune is Western vessels arriving in Japan between the 15th and 19th centuries), horse race places have horse sable.

And talking about animal sable, this cute one is a cow sable of farm. The animal type is really hot. This one is dog, cat, elephant, fish and panda, I can make zoo with sable. Today I found this sable collection site, sable bu. Tell me if you know some unique sable in your area.

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[mari]

thanks for your comments. In japan, each area has their uniqe surveir, that is very interesting always

[Heidi]

America no omiyage no tabemono wa...

We do have souvenir foods in America, but as Chris posted, I think it's different than in Japan, usually not cookies. Most souvenir foods in America are a speciality of the area.

In Minnesota, the most famous "omyiage" food is wild rice. You can even buy it at the gift shop in the airport. It comes in a clear plastic bag with a little recipe booklet attached (you have to cook it).

In the southern states (Texas, Tennessee) Barbeque sauce is a common souvenir (bottled). Georgia is famous for peaches (momo) and many people buy peach preservs (jam) or peach candy as a souvenir. Another famous souvenir food in the south is pralines (candy made from brown sugar, butter and pecans - a sweet nut). In Florida the most famous food is key lime pie, but this is really difficult to pack in a suitacse! ;)

In the Northeast (Vermont in particular) maple syrup and maple candy are famous souvenir foods.

In the Northwest (Washington, Oregon) salmon and apples are the most famous foods.

Alaska is also famous for salmon, and moose, elk and caribou sausage.

Hawaii is famous for Kona coffee, macadamia nuts and pineapple.

Because America is so big, there are many different omiyage no tabemono depending on where you visit.

As far as omiyage cookies, Christmas time is the best time for traditional speciality cookies. Because we have so many nationalities, there are many different kinds of Christmas cookies. Because I live in Minnesota, I only know the Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and German cookies. I know that Italian Americans make fabulous Christams cookies, but I don't know the names! :(

My favorite Christmas cookies are Norwegian krumkake, sandbakles, kringle, kransekake, rosettes, fattigman and spritz. Uffda now I'm craving krumkake! ;) And it just ain't Christmas without julekake, lefse and lingonberries!

[bshock]

I'm a little ashamed to admit that I had to look up "sable" in this context. In my limited experience, the word "sable" just meant a kind of fur, like mink.

But according to my dictionary:
サブレ; サブレー (n) shortbread (fre: sable)

Shortbread cookies! Yes, we have shortbread cookies all over the US. When I was a child, my favorite treat was called "Animal Crackers," which were small shortbread cookies in the shape of zoo animals like elephants, lions, and zebras. They came in a box painted like a circus truck, and I think I liked that box even more than the cookies.

[Chris Kuan]

When I visited Osaka, there was one shop near Dotonburi that sold something like Daigaku Imo but with normal potato instead. I ate too much of that (^_^);

I can't remember Western places selling distinctive food as common souvenirs. But then again the omiyage culture is slightly different in Japan. Also, instead of such souvenirs taking up space in a small Japanese house, you just eat it instead!