Live in Japan: Japanese lifestyle and its social culture
What is Mentaiko (Karashi Mentaiko)?

It is said that the opening of the Shinkansen or the  bullet train service to Hakata or Fukuoka  in Northern Kyushu, Japan was what made Karashi Mentaiko (spicy Alaska pollock roe), a local specialty of Hakata, well-known throughout the country of Japan. That is, the Shinkansen passengers having bought the Karashi Mentaiko sold as a […]

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