🍱 Egg agar/soy sauce agar

In Yamagata Prefecture, dishes using agar have been eaten for a long time, and it is also served as a tea snack. In the Shonai area, agar as a sweet dessert is mainstream, and the most popular one is "egg agar". It has a sweet soy sauce flavor and is made for celebratory occasions such as festivals and the New Year. It is said that the combination of agar, which is deeply rooted in the Japanese diet, and eggs, which were a valuable commodity at the time, has become popular as an event food. Boiled or beaten eggs are sometimes added as well, and the flavor is distinctively sweet and salty with soy sauce and sugar. Also in the prefecture, there is "egg agar" which is sweet and salty, as in the Shonai region, and "walnut agar", which is chopped walnuts seasoned with sugar and soy sauce. Furthermore, in the Okitama area, there are many agar dishes such as agar with vegetables and mustard agar mixed with kneaded mustard. "Mustard agar" is treated as an item on the Buddhist menu.