Food & specialties・Aizuwakamatsu

Nishin no Sansho-zukeNishin no Sansho-zuke

Also known as: Nishin Sansho-zuke

A preserved Aizu dish of dried herring pickled with sansho pepper leaves in soy sauce, vinegar, and sake. It began with dried herring shipped in from Hokkaido, prized as a rare source of protein in landlocked, snowbound Aizu, where fresh seafood was hard to obtain.

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