Shaved ice has become a popular summer treat, and more and more creative shaved ice creations are becoming photo-worthy.Because Nara is one of the Kinki region’s leading strawberry producing areas, menus featuring Nara strawberries are particularly popular.
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“Shikishiki” is a prewar Nara snack made of flour, water and sugar and baked thin. Nowadays, eggs are sometimes added. It is a snack similar to today’s crepes. Photo source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
Glutinous rice and Uruchi rice are mixed with salt and pounded. When the mixture becomes sticky like a rice cake, it is covered with bean jam and covered with soybean flour.
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Baked pastry made by mixing roasted soybeans and rice flour with sugar and water. Photo source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
A traditional sweet consisting of a rice cake filled with red bean paste and wrapped in a magnolia leaf. |
Ice cakes made with millet, millet and horse chestnuts. Photo source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
Shaved ice is served in a bowl and topped with sweet bean paste and green tea syrup. At restaurants, shaved ice is often arranged in a parfait-like style with a gorgeous arrangement of shiratama (white rice balls), ice cream, and green tea jelly. Photo source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
It is served with a white Uiro topped with azuki beans and cut into triangles.  |
Pink rice cake rolled with salted cherry leaves.The Kanto’s sakura mochi is made of thin crepe-like dough and wrapped with sweet bean paste, while Kansai’s sakura mochi is made of mashed domyoji flour and wrapped with sweet bean paste. Photo source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
It is a rice cake with red bean paste in the middle, wrapped in a sartorii-valley leaf, and is known nationally as “Kashiwa Mochi”.
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2. Shikishiki (奈良縣)刨冰如今已經成為一種流行的夏季美食。越來越多有創意的刨冰成為「打卡」的必備品。由於奈良是近畿地區主要的草莓產區之一，以奈良草莓為特色的菜單特別受歡迎。 圖片來源：農林水產省 |
四季式是一種戰前奈良小吃。由麵粉、水和糖製成，並烤薄而成，有時會添加雞蛋，是一種類似於今天的可麗餅的小吃。
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的做法是糯將米和粳米與鹽混合併搗碎。 當它們變得像麻糬一樣粘稠時，再用豆醬和大豆粉覆蓋。
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開心豆是將烤大豆和米粉與糖、水混合製成的烘焙糕點。 圖片來源：農林水產省 |
是一種傳統的甜食。做法是用塞滿紅豆的麻糬用木蘭葉包裹。  |
是用小米和七葉樹制成的麻糬。
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宇治金時的做法是將刨冰盛在碗裡，上面撒上甜豆沙和綠茶糖漿。 在日本餐廳，刨冰通常會類似百匯(芭菲)的方式擺放:例如白玉（白飯糰）、冰淇淋和綠茶果凍等豪華排列。 圖片來源：農林水產省 |
水無月配上一個純白色的外郎餅，上面再放著紅豆切成三角形。  |
櫻餅通常捲著一片咸櫻桃葉。 關東的櫻餅是由薄薄的薄餅狀麵團包裹甜豆沙; 關西的櫻餅則是由搗碎的道明寺麵粉製成，並包裹甜豆沙。 圖片來源：農林水產省 |
是一種中間是紅豆沙，包裹在紗托里谷葉中的麻糬。在日本也被稱為「柏餅」。 圖片來源：農林水產省 |