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Nattoku! Factory offers free factory tours of a famous natto brand production process

Diehard lovers of Japan’s infamous fermented soy beans can now get a glimpse of the sticky production process.

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How many times should you mix natto to make it more delicious?

Find out if mixing natto 50, 100, 500 or 1,000 times makes it taste less or more like smelly socks.

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We go looking for the best natto (fermented soybeans) in all of Japan【Taste test】

Our search in natto mecca Mito leads us to Kogoira Natto.

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The surprising reason natto (fermented soybeans) are hard to swallow for many Japanese surfers

Surfing can lead to natto allergies, it turns out.

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Our resident natto lover tries Mythical Natto from Hokkaido and gets spirited away【Taste test】

We tickle our taste buds with a grotesque-looking but premier version of the infamous “foreigner-repelling food.”

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We tried making natto the old-fashioned way, and the result was unexpected but delicious 【SoraKitchen】

Who knew that fermenting soybeans was such a delicate process?

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We try a new natto coffee ice cream that took 17 months to perfect

Tokyo cafe finds a way to use natto’s sticky texture to create a dessert like Turkish ice cream.

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Could this be the secret to get Americans to actually like natto (Japanese fermented soy beans)?

Japanese online commenters react with “BLEGH” and vomiting ASCII art.

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We head out to Kyoto to eat a delicious crepe crammed with fermented soybeans, rice【Taste Test】

Why hadn’t we thought to stick natto and rice into warm fluffy crepe layers before now?!
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Pork Cutlets with Fermented Soybeans? All-You-Can-Eat Natto Part 2!

Natto, which is also known as fermented soybeans, is a dish well-loved by the Japanese for its high nutritious value. Recently, we introduced a restaurant which served all-you-can-eat natto, and this time we’re back with another great natto dining experience!

Ibaraki prefecture has opened a local goods retail store and restaurant, named Ibaraki Marche, in Tokyo’s Ginza. Natto is widely used in many of the local dishes of Ibaraki, so one can expect Ibaraki Marche to serve the best tasting natto.

Ms. Rinko, a reporter over at our Japanese sister site Pouch, headed over to the restaurant to try out their natto lunch.

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All-You-Can-Eat Fermented Soybeans for $8.50! Choose From Eight Types of Natto!

Natto, also known as fermented soybeans, is a unique food hailing from Japan. The smell alone (often described as smelly feet or chemicals), not to mention the slug-like texture, are enough to turn even the most adventurous eaters away. But for some, natto is a delicious and healthy treat that is enjoyed daily.

A restaurant in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo is now offering patrons all the natto they can fit in their bellies for 780 yen (US $8.50). The all-you-can-eat natto lunch gives natto lovers a great deal on a delicious meal and natto haters a cheap way to challenge themselves to eat as much fermented soybean as they can before throwing up. Why would you want to do that? We don’t know, but now you can if you want to.

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