🍱 Hatto

"Hatto" is a dish made by kneading and rolling a mixture of buckwheat flour, rice flour, or glutinous rice flour, cutting it into diamond shapes, and boiling it. During the Edo period, there was a movement to restrict the consumption of excessive rice and soba, leading to a prohibition on flour-based foods. During this period, people secretly used normally prohibited ingredients such as buckwheat flour and rice flour for cooking, and it was said to be called "hatto" because they discreetly consumed it despite the restrictions. Another theory suggests that in ancient times, when the dish was presented to the local feudal lord, it was so delicious that he remarked, "It is forbidden for commoners (villagers) to eat something this good. "This led to the name "hatto." In recent years, various variations have emerged, such as calling the diamond-shaped cuts "hishi hatto" and those with added okara "oka hatto," adding richness to the variety of this dish.