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From a Tohoku popup shop, hotpot with senbei-jiru from Aomori! Overstuffed it a litte but it fed us for days.

The characteristic of senbei-jiru is the thick, hard, wheat-flour crackers (senbei) that soften in the soup (shiru). They're the things in the middle that look like giant communion wafers. They have such a lovely texture and make things feel very cozy and rustic.

Shibamata, Katsuhika-ku, Tokyo, June 2023

Mexicanos, apparently. It's like lightly cheese-flavored rice crackers, but made out of corn.

(Including enough starch that they only taste lightly corny too AFAICT. Way less than tortilla chips, currently fucked-up sense of taste or no. Still not really smelling anything from them. They could well be aggressively cheesy and corny, in reality.)

Hadn't tried these before, but will no doubt want to pick up more of them. Very nice texture if you do enjoy senbei.

Which I kinda do, though the current supply is starting to run low. Hadn't tried that Thai-made coconut milk variety on the left before, but would definitely recommend those too.

Since I seem to have accidentally cut off the WANT-WANT kid's head

When people talk about anime having absurdly wild plots, they usually pull out their favorite action shounen series because that’s typically what they associate over-the-top with. And while they’re not wrong, it’s easy to get into this mentality that other genres (shoujo and slice of life, for example) aren’t nearly as weird because they don’t have the mind-blowing action scenes or big explosions or whatever. It’s easy for people to overlook how utterly buck wild the plot of any shoujo series can be when you actually spell it out.

Over the course of 26 episodes, Ah! My Goddess starts out as a simple college dramedy where an unlucky dude who likes motorcycles and cars accidentally summons a goddess to live with him. And as the inevitable rom-com hijinx start pouring in, other supernatural entities start showing up and causing more chaos not only for this one dude, but for everyone else in his life as well. Eventually there are too many goddesses and demons on earth, and Heaven itself starts literally glitching out. One of the demons then acquires the means to bring about the destruction of all humans and summons the wolf Fenrir to consume the planet, but it turns out Fenrir functions like a personified computer program, and through a bit of trickery and nonsense, ends up sealed inside a fucking floppy disk and erased with a magnet. All so our heroes can get back to their lovey-dovey slice of life shenanigans.

And if that ain’t a batshit nutty plot, I don’t know what is!

5.8 x 8.3 (DIN A5) Copic on Paper Your Review for: Ichiban Confections ★★★★★ I would trust this fine Businessman and his employees with my life. Also, the Senbei are delicious!

Vegan & Gluten-Free Japanese Rice Crackers (Senbei)