🍱 Teppo-maki

"Teppo-maki", a local dish of Futtsu City, is a thick roll with Bonito flakes, seasoned with soy sauce, and its name comes from its resemblance to a gun. Futtsu City is also a seaweed-growing region, and because "Teppo-maki" can be made and eaten quickly, it has been popular as a portable meal for fishermen. "Makizushi"(rolled sushi) called "Teppo-maki" are also made in various regions of Japan, but most of them are made with “kanpyo”(gourd ribbons) or "kanpyo with wasabi". While those "Teppo-maki" are made of sushi rice, Futtsu's "Teppo-maki" is made of rice, instead of "sushi rice," and it can be said that "Okaka-Onigiri"(rice ball with bonito flakes) is made long and thin to be easy to eat with one hand. It is so familiar to the locals that the word "Teppo-maki," reminds them of the thick rolls of "okaka".