🍲 Sukiyaki (Hotpot Cooked Beef and Vegetables with Soy sauce and Sugar)
There are plenty of agricultural products in Gunma Prefecture; ‘Joushu-ushi' (Beef from Joushu area, first beef in Japan exported to EU), ‘Shimonita-negi' (Japanese leek from grown in Shimonita-cho in Kanra District. It's thick and soft.) and so on. ‘Sukiyaki' is a dish you can fully enjoy these great agricultural products in Gunma. All ingredients used in this dish is ‘100% self-sufficient', meaning these are grown in this prefecture. Not to mention ‘Joushu-ushi' and ‘Shimonita-negi', ‘shirataki' (konjac noodle), made from konjac yam, which is harvested most in Japan, napa cabbage, crown daisy, raw shiitake mushroom (all these are ranked No.5 of product in Japan according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ‘The cultivation area, harvest area and product amount of konjac yam in second year of Reiwa(2020)', ‘The production and shipping statistics for vegetables in second year of Reiwa(2020)', ‘The special forest products basic documents in second year of Reiwa(2020)'), are used a lot in this dish. There are many competition events like ‘Gunma Sukiyaki Boxed lunch competition' (to collect the lunch ideas with ‘sukiyaki'), ‘Family ‘sukiyaki' photo competition' (to take family photos with ‘sukiyaki') to let the residents in the prefecture join. The ‘sukiyaki' culture is on the way to take root.