Dango
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Template:Nihongo is a Japanese dumpling made with regular rice flour and glutinous rice flour.<ref>大辞林 第三版「だんご〔団子〕」- コトバンク 2020年4月3日閲覧</ref> They are usually made in round shapes, and three to five pieces are served on a skewer, which is called Template:Nihongo. The pieces are eaten with sugar, syrup, red bean paste, and other sweeteners. Generally, dango falls under the category of wagashi (Japanese confectionery), and is often served with green tea. It is eaten year-round, but the different varieties are traditionally eaten in given seasons. Dango is sometimes compared with mochi, but is different in that mochi is generally made only with glutinous rice.
A popular type of dango, the hanami dango, has been made into a Unicode emoji (🍡).
Types
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The many different varieties of dango are usually named after the various seasonings served on or with it.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Popular dango
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- Template:Nihongo is commonly covered with sweetened red bean paste; ingredients other than azuki are used on rare occasions. Other toppings for anko include Template:Nihongo made from edamame paste and kurumi (walnut) paste.
- Template:Nihongo is green tea (matcha) flavored dango.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Template:Nihongo is a kind of baked dango (Template:Nihongo) and is seasoned with soy sauce. Furthermore, the one wrapped with nori is called Template:Nihongo.
- Template:Nihongo also known as Template:Nihongo is eaten during hanami. It has three colors (pink, white and green), and is traditionally made during sakura-viewing season, hence the name (hanami means "flower viewing"; hana meaning "flower", and mi meaning "to see"). The order of the three colored dumplings is said to represent the order in which cherry blossoms bloom. Pink represents cherry buds, white represents cherry blossoms in full bloom, and green represents leafy cherry blossoms after they have fallen. This one was chosen for the Dango Unicode emoji, 🍡
- Template:Nihongo is made with millet flour. This variety is prominently featured in the tale of Momotarō, a folkloric Japanese hero, who offers the rounded ball (not skewered) to three talking animals in exchange for their aid in fighting demons.
- Template:Nihongo is made with toasted soy flour.
- Template:Nihongo is mixed leaves of yomogi, like kusa mochi. It is often covered with anko.
- Template:Nihongo is covered with a syrup made from shouyu (soy sauce), sugar, and starch.
- Template:Nihongo is produced and eaten primarily in Niigata Prefecture. Sasa dango has two varieties: onna dango and otoko dango. Onna dango (literally "female dango") is filled with anko, while the otoko dango (literally "male dango") is filled with kinpira. The dango is wrapped in leaves of sasa for the purpose of preservation.
- Template:Nihongo is eaten in anmitsu or mitsumame.
- Template:Nihongo is a white dango eaten during Tsukimi, related to the Mid-Autumn festival.
Various other dango
[edit]- Template:Nihongo has three colors. One is colored by red beans, the second by eggs, and the third by green tea. Botchan dango is a product name of Ehime’s miyagegashi, which was named after Natsume Sōseki’s novel Botchan.
- Template:Nihongo is a slightly sweet, light treat usually eaten as a dessert.
- Template:Nihongo from Hokkaido is made from potato flour and baked with sweet boiled beans.
- Template:Nihongo is coated in chestnut paste.
- Template:Nihongo is a type of Japanese meatball.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Chicken niku dango is called tsukune, served on a skewer.
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Derived terms
[edit]Template:Unreferenced section A common Japanese proverb Template:Nihongo refers to a preference for practical things rather than aesthetics.
A hairstyle consisting of dango-like buns on either side of the head is sometimes known as odango.
Dorodango is a Japanese art form in which earth and water are molded to create a delicate, shiny sphere, resembling a billiard ball.
In Vietnam
[edit]Bánh hòn is a specialty dessert of Phan Thiet. The cake is made from tapioca flour, coconut, roasted peanuts, salt and sugar. When finished, it is rolled over shredded coconut and skewered like Japanese dango.Template:Cn
Unicode character
[edit]The Unicode emoji character 🍡 is used to resemble hanami dango. The character was introduced in October 2010.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>