Kibi dango (millet dumpling)
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Kibi dango is a Japanese dumpling made from the meal or flour of the kibi grain. The treat was used by folktale-hero Momotarō to recruit his three beastly retainers, in the commonly known version of t
Hero offering millet dumpling to dog, Momotaro, tr. David Tomson (1886)
Kibi dango (Okayama)
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A Kibi dango is a type of wagashi sweet or snack with an eponymous reference to Kibi-no-kuni, an old province roughly coincident with today's Okayama Prefecture. It is made by forming gyūhi, a sort of
Kibi dango (millet dumpling)
…pheasant), in the commonly known version of the tale. In modern times, this millet dumpling has been confused with the identical-sounding confection Kibi dango named after Kibi Province (now Okayama Prefecture), even though the latter hardly uses any millet at all. The confectioners continue to market their…
The Okayama Kibi dango on a plate