🍱 Kashiwa-meshi

In the Kyushu region, chicken is called "kashiwa," and "kashiwa-meshi" is a local food that combines chicken and boiled-down ingredients to cooked rice. It is a local home cooking staple made throughout homes and restaurants in Fukuoka Prefecture since long ago, and is also eaten during special occasions such as festivals and sporting events. "Kashiwa-meshi," which has also been long beloved as station bentos, has now been picked up by the media and has become a famous product of Fukuoka. The chicken used for "kashiwa-meshi" is commonly "Hakata jidori," Fukuoka Prefecture's free-range, local-pedigree chicken, whose musculature makes for an excellent sensation when bitten into, and is also remarkable for the deepening of flavor every time you chew it. Additionally, the chicken breast of "Hakata jidori" contains anserine and carnosine, which function to inhibit decline in cognitive function, and is recognized as a Food with Functional Claims by the Consumer Affairs Agency.