Tempura using “Toyomitsu-hime” fig.
ASAKURA, Oct. 11 — A Japanese agriculture cooperative in the southern island of Kyushu has teamed up with the fast food tempura chain, Tendon Tenya, using a locally-produced fruit: Fig tempura.
The Japanese tempura bowl operator has a typical menu that consists of a bowl of rice topped with tempura.
Toiling with six months of trial and error, the food chain developed the new product, using “Toyomitsu-hime” figs produced by JA Chikuzen Asakura, the agricultural cooperative in Asakura city, Fukuoka prefecture.
The new fruit tempura is now on the menu at Tendon Tenya until Oct. 30.
A portion of the sales will be donated to northern Kyushu areas that were hit hard by damaging heavy rainfall during the summer.