Is there any region, island, mountain, or village in Japan known for hot spicy local cuisine?
Within the next few days I'm going to start a trip from the very south of Kyushu to the very North of Hokkaido.
I'm a bit of a foodie and I'm a huge fan of hot spicy food of all kinds, be it black pepper, chili, horseradish, mustard, Sichuan pepper, wasabi, or anything that might be described as "hot" or "spicy".
Japan is not famed for hot or spicy food, with the exception of wasabi. But I'm interested to find out if there are in fact some local dishes of this type which are not famous. Perhaps only known to Japanese or to food enthusiasts.
Besides wasabi I have also come across shichimi togarashi, koregusu, and taka no tsume. I think these are all just ingredients or condiments but I only found the last one by chance when browsing my dictionary a few minutes ago and I'm not familiar with it.
So I want to know whether there is some "spicy food destination" anywhere in Japan that I can plan my route around.
Best Answer
Sapporo, in Hokkaido, is famous for soup curry -- this is a unique Japanese-style curry soup with vegetables (lotus root, potatoes, etc.) and chicken, served with rice on the side. Soup curry places typically have a system where you can pick how hot you want it (from 1-40 or similar) -- the higher levels are really spicy.
You can find pictures on the Japanese Wikipedia article.
For a particular restaurant, you might try Crazy Spice, which is very good.
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Answer 2
Yes, there are.
Hachijo islands and Ogasawara islands are famous for spicy food. Islanders put their chilli peppers literally anywhere and they are REALLY hot. I am not sure, but could be a variation of Thai Birds' Eye Chili peppers.
Islanders make spicy vinegar-based sauces similar to Tabasco sauce (just few times hotter), use peppers instead of wasabi to eat sushi, put peppers into soba noodles, make "tare" sauce of soy sauce and peppers and these are just most common uses.
However: normally food shops on these islands although feature some local dishes they are apparently "normalised" for an average visitor, so it's not that easy to find local spicy excesses being a tourist. Some pepper would be passed as an option in soba shops and that's all.
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