| The production of arare, a type of Japanese cracker made from glutinous rice, is now at its peak in Miyako Town, Fukuoka Prefecture.
A 54-year-old farmer, Miyuki Tominaga, was drying colorful bite-sized rice crackers in her workspace. She uses home-grown Hiyoku Mochi glutinous rice and about 10 different ingredients, including ginger, red perilla, and green laver, to add colors and flavors. Arare is everyone’s favorite winter snack, which is eaten baked and fried. It takes about a month to dry and then ship. Her arare is sold primarily at a farmers’ market run by a local agricultural cooperative in Fukuoka, JA Fukuoka Keichiku. Tominaga began full-scale production of arare five years ago. “I want to preserve the traditional, handmade taste,” she said. (Reporter: Ryo Yamada) |
Colorful arare is being dried. Just seeing it will make you happy (in Miyako Town, Fukuoka Prefecture)