Kyushu food– tag –

Open a box of live Himeshima kuruma prawns, and the sawdust inside may suddenly move. The striped prawns come from a small island off Oita Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu. There, land once used for salt making gave way to seawater po...

Oita Wagyu (おおいた和牛) is a premium certification for selected Oita Bungo Beef from Oita Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu. It is not a separate breed. To qualify, the beef must reach meat quality Grade 4 or 5. It must also come fro...

Sekiaji (Seki horse mackerel, 関あじ) is a branded Japanese jack mackerel from Saganoseki, in Oita Prefecture on the island of Kyushu. It is not a separate species. Only fish caught individually by hook and line, known as ippon-zuri (一...

In Oita, some pigs eat rice before they reach the table. That simple detail sits behind Kome no Megumi pork (米の恵み), the prefecture's unified pork brand. The name means “blessing of rice,” and it covers pork from pigs given feed with ...

Adding seawater to tomato soil sounds as if it should make the fruit salty. Yet in Hiji, a small town on Beppu Bay in Oita Prefecture, growers use carefully controlled seawater cultivation for a different reason. It limits how much water...

A bowl of hot rice arrives topped with slices of raw tuna, glossy with a sweet sesame-soy sauce. That bowl is Hyugadon (ひゅうが丼), a Japanese marinated tuna rice bowl from Tsukumi in Oita Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu. People als...

About the Kyushu Region and Its Food Culture Kyushu is a region blessed with a warm climate, located at the southwestern tip of the Japanese archipelago. Comprising the seven prefectures of Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyaza...

Beppu is famous for clouds of hot-spring steam, yet one of its most distinctive meals arrives cold. Beppu reimen (別府冷麺) combines firm, chewy noodles with a chilled Japanese-style broth, seasoned meat, and tangy cabbage kimchi. The fi...

Pork, shrimp, squid, and cabbage hit a hot wok before the cook adds a savory, often cloudy broth and thick noodles. This is Nagasaki champon, one of Nagasaki's best-known regional dishes, from a port city on Japan's southern island of Ky...

About the Kyushu Region and Its Food Culture Kyushu is a region blessed with a warm climate, located at the southwestern tip of the Japanese archipelago. Comprising the seven prefectures of Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyaza...

Beppu is famous for clouds of hot-spring steam, yet one of its most distinctive meals arrives cold. Beppu reimen (別府冷麺) combines firm, chewy noodles with a chilled Japanese-style broth, seasoned meat, and tangy cabbage kimchi. The fi...

Pork, shrimp, squid, and cabbage hit a hot wok before the cook adds a savory, often cloudy broth and thick noodles. This is Nagasaki champon, one of Nagasaki's best-known regional dishes, from a port city on Japan's southern island of Ky...