Original illustration cookies + rice cracker souvenirs made using traditional Saga techniques

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You can make cookies at a long-established store that was founded in the first year of the Taisho era and has been making rice crackers for over 100 years. And cookies with the photo I want! We do not change the old-fashioned manufacturing method that has been handed down, and we bake it by hand with care.

In addition to cookies made with your favorite photo, you can also receive a Yutoku Senbei set as a souvenir. Aren’t you really looking forward to senbei made by a pastry chef using traditional techniques?

Senbei, traditional Japanese sweets

For those of you who are curious about what senbei are, I will introduce them. Senbei is a type of Japanese confectionery or wagashi. It is mainly made by kneading rice flour, baking or frying it, and seasoning it with spices such as salt, soy sauce, and sugar.

In Japan, it is a snack loved by everyone from children to adults, and in Korean it is called jeonbyeong. Doesn’t this give you a sense of what kind of snack senbei is?

Saga, 3rd Inari Shrine

This is ‘Yutoku Inari Shrine’, one of the three major Inari shrines. It is also known as a flower shrine because of the colorful flowers that bloom throughout the four seasons. Plum blossoms, cherry blossoms, azaleas, and wisteria bloom in that order, and later, a variety of flowers bloom, such as hydrangeas.

Inari Shrine is a shrine that worships the 'Inari Fox', the god Inari, who is in charge of rice, tea, and alcohol. Isn’t it unique that they worship a fox instead of a god? There are countless Inari shrines, but Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto is the most famous.