is a
Japanese snack food
This is a list of Japanese and finger foods. It includes both brand name and generic snacks.
Types ''Anko'', or sweet bean paste
'' Anko'' is a kind of sweet bean paste.
Anko is mainly eaten during the afternoon green tea time in Japan. School ...
. It is a thin banana-shaped
senbei
are a type of Japanese rice cracker. They come in various shapes, sizes, and flavors, usually savory but sometimes sweet. Senbei are often eaten with green tea as a casual snack and offered to visiting house guests as a courtesy refreshment.
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with various flavours added. It is manufactured by
Kuriyama Beika (栗山米菓) of
Niigata Prefecture
is a prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan. Niigata Prefecture has a population of 2,227,496 (1 July 2019) and is the fifth-largest prefecture of Japan by geographic area at . Niigata Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture and ...
.
The word ''bakauke'' in the
Niigata dialect of Japanese colloquially means "extremely well received".
The characters who appear on the packets are Borin and Barin, who are boyfriend and girlfriend.
References
External links
Bakauke website
Beika
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