🍲 Shouga Miso Oden (Japanese Fishcake Stew with Ginger Miso)

In Aomori city and surrounding areas, it is customary to eat Oden (=Japanese fishcake stew) with grated ginger and miso. People began to eat Oden in this way after the war. It was first sold at the black market by women to those who traveled to Hakodate, Hokkaido on the Seikan Liaison Ship in extreme cold weather. In Aomori, miso is used frequently for cooking. "Shouga miso oden" is unique in that it uses local ingredients such as whelk caught in Mutsu Bay, "Nemagaridake" (=curved-root young bamboo shoots), "Daikakuten" (=thin and large deep-fried fish cake), and "Botanyaki-chikuwa".