This is Japanese famous seaweed paste, “Gohan-desuyo” from Momoya.
The seaweed paste is boiled with soy sauce, and served on hot rice. Since the flavor is so perfect for rice, you can eat a lot of rice with it and needn’t other side dishes. Many Japanese love it.
Summer in Japan means those noisy semi (cicada) are back. It seems for a month or so every tree in Yokohama is infested with these bugs. They unnerve me. I hate bugs.
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