We tickle our taste buds with a grotesque-looking but premier version of the infamous “foreigner-repelling food.”
Ebetsu
Our resident natto lover tries Mythical Natto from Hokkaido and gets spirited away【Taste test】
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Krista Rogers
May 12, 2023 - Tweet
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- (Ebetsu • fermented soybeans • Hokkaido • maboroshi no natto • mythical • natto • Takashi Harada • taste test)
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