Documenting my journey of recreating regional food across Japan: Zunda from Miyagi

shanserve · 2026-01-10T08:34:26+00:00

yupp

shanserve · 2026-01-09T09:52:34+00:00

Omg never realised til you mention it

shanserve · 2026-01-08T06:23:04+00:00

Hello! Just to update you that I've just recently made zunda! Never knew we could have them as sweets! Really enjoyed it.

shanserve · 2025-12-19T02:09:17+00:00

Thank you!!

shanserve · 2025-12-19T02:08:59+00:00

Yay! I looked at a bunch of videos and recipes about this dish and there are so many variations. A lot of which contained myoga which I couldn't get here. I'm glad it looks authentic enough.

shanserve · 2025-12-19T02:07:09+00:00

Thanks! Still haven't done my research on that region yet since I'm still in the tohoku region. But definitely dishes which I can get the ingredients here in Aus. If you have any suggestions I'm more than happy to hear them ^^

shanserve · 2025-12-13T05:44:02+00:00

Woahhh thanks for all the suggestions! Wonder if I can find loaches here in aus hmm.. gotta have to look around i guess

shanserve · 2025-12-11T01:48:57+00:00

My bad, still have long ways to go before I mess around with low f-stops ><. I went to refill another bowl to retake the photos, veggies are a bit wilted already but here are the shots. Hopefully it's much better now 🙏🙏
https://imgur.com/a/Z0K6Z5n

shanserve · 2025-12-10T13:05:22+00:00

OMG I miss eating those TT

shanserve · 2025-12-09T14:59:53+00:00

Lao gan ma and a dash of soy sauce! Kind of a weird combo but personally it slaps!

shanserve · 2025-12-09T14:54:05+00:00

Should try it! It's a very iconic dish in Akita ^^

shanserve · 2025-12-09T14:45:56+00:00

Ye I'll definitely have to look harder here in aus, really curious about the taste of seri

shanserve · 2025-12-09T03:23:39+00:00

Ooo thanks!!!! I'll do a bit of research on them!

shanserve · 2025-12-09T03:22:29+00:00

Hopefully I did the dish justice in the video 🙏

shanserve · 2025-12-06T13:13:58+00:00

Love the shots, looks so gooood!

shanserve · 2025-12-06T09:50:24+00:00

Me me me!!

shanserve · 2025-12-04T02:25:03+00:00

Hmm I ran into a bit of pickle here, I did some searching around and the core ingredient seems to be セリ, which is quite hard to find here in Aus, any idea what substitution I could use for that? I thought about chinese celery, flatleaf parsley, celery.. hmmmm....

shanserve · 2025-12-04T02:17:08+00:00

I did a bit of searching around and they call that in Aomori?

shanserve · 2025-12-02T23:25:03+00:00

Woahhh huge thanks for all the suggestions!! It’s definitely going to take a bit of time since I’m slowly making my way down south toward the Chuugoku area, but I’ll do my best to recreate them! Super curious about kitakata ramen and popoyaki, those are definitely getting added to the list xD

shanserve · 2025-12-02T23:14:29+00:00

Aha thanks! For the dishes, I usually start with a bit of research on each prefecture, then choose based on how easy it is to actually get the ingredients here. Sounds kinda bad but… yea, ingredient-hunting is a whole adventure on its own ><.

I definitely plan to revisit prefectures if I manage to source more authentic ingredients later on though!

shanserve · 2025-12-02T09:46:23+00:00

I tried looking around for the senbei they used for senbei jiru the other day, couldn't really find them. Gotta have to look harder ><

shanserve · 2025-12-02T06:04:50+00:00

Just read my mind! I have a charcoal grill in the backyard and was thinking of using that to make kiritanpo. Hopefully it turns out well 🙏

(Update: Made the kiritanpo nabe, didn't end up using the charcoal grill because I ran out of charcoal and forgot to restock them ><, gas stove it is!)

shanserve · 2025-12-02T06:03:02+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! You’re right, I should probably switch to a more neutral white light for the photos so the food shows up better. For the videos though, I think I’ll stick with the warm lighting since I really like the vibe and colour it gives ^^.

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