Little Snacks from Japan, Dagashi

Liana Riani Ramli

Daily Journal

February 16th, 2017

Every child likes snacks, starts from candies, chips, cookies, and etc. Japanese children also love those sweets. Dagashi, Japanese cheap snack food, means futile or negligible snacks. Due to the low price and fun packaging, those candies around 5 and 10 yen attract children with small allowances. Most dagashi are packaged in bright, childish wrapping and sometimes come with a small toy or prize. The toy are often small figurines, and a common prize is will allow the holder to claim a second free snack. A store which specially sell dagashi called dagashiya, but now convenience stores sell dagashi as well. Umaibo, the most popular dagashi in Japan, is an over-sized corn puff with a lot of different flavor. Unlike the other snacks. Umaibo flavoring isn't just throwing powder in the mix, but using other method, so Umaibo have different texture each flavor. Even they say Umaibo is "King of Dadashi". Are soft drinks also Dagashi? Yes! One of them is Ramune, a lemon-lime soda. The word Ramune is Japanese re-worked of the word "Lemonade". The bottle of Ramune is quite unique. The cod-ned bottles are sealed with a marble that is pushed down into the neck to open. The glass bottle is now considered a symbol of summer and is regularly sold at summer festivals. If you want to know more about Dagashi, but too lazy to search about them in internet, you can watch the anime "Dagashi Kashi". This anime takes dagasi as the main topic, so it fills with a lot of little trivia also some unknown fact about tasty things called dagashi.

Source :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagashi

http://blog.honeyfeed.fm/top-10-snacks-in-dagashi-kashi/