There is a small rice cracker shop diagonally in front of Ginza Brosam.
Ginza Stoke Building 1F, 22-10 Ginza 1-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
The name is Tagosaku Senbei.
Tagosaku front
This shop has a head office in Chiba. There are two branches in Chiba Prefecture.
We are particular about rice, soy sauce and Bincho charcoal.
Here are some of the contents explained by each store.
・Most rice can be used as a raw material for rice crackers.
After all, you can't make delicious rice crackers unless it's delicious rice.
・Soy sauce can be said to be a representative of Japan's seasonings that have been developed with miso since ancient times.
In Chiba Prefecture, there are dozens of small and medium-sized soy sauce manufacturers in addition to famous manufacturers such as Kikkoman in Noda, Yamasa in Choshi, and Higeta.
・In our shop, charcoal is used as the fuel for baking rice crackers. Nowadays, the number of rice crackers baked with charcoal is gradually decreasing. Electric heat, gas, etc. are convenient and the fuel cost is low, so there is no choice but to give the original taste of salt rice crackers made of good rice, it is still charcoal fire.
Charcoal varies depending on the material and how it is baked, and each feature is utilized depending on the application. When used for food processing, it is soft charcoal for baking small fish. Charcoal like light flames for tofu and fried oil. Stick charcoal for eel, yakitori, and yakiniku. The finest hard charcoal Bincho charcoal, which has no harmful gas or smell, has long thermal power and burns from inside, seems to be the most suitable for rice crackers.
Wakayama, a production prefecture in Bincho charcoal. While charcoal disappeared due to gas and electric heat, only Bicho continued to produce in response to special demand. Bincho charcoal was in short supply during the oil shock in 1973. The oil shock has subsided and charcoal has finally come out, but the price has stabilized at a high price. Among them, processed charcoal made by powdering wood of the same quality as Bicho and charcoal from the Philippines and China are served as an auxiliary role of Bincho charcoal.
It's a thin and fragrant rice cracker.
In Osaka, this is called Okaki.
In Osaka, sweets are called rice crackers.