Meat! Fish! Sweets! Popular local gourmet foods from around the country gathered at this event (Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store)

Also recommended for outings over the next three-day weekend!

We'd like to introduce you to a food event in Tenjin where you can enjoy local gourmet food from all over Japan.

[February 21-26, 2024] The 38th National Delicious Food Competition will be held at Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin Store.

The National Delicious Food Festival will be held at the event hall on the 8th floor of the main building of Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin Store from Wednesday, February 21st to Monday, February 26th, 2024. This is the 38th year for this extremely popular event.

The venue will feature a wide selection of delicious gourmet food from 58 stores across 28 prefectures across Japan, including local delicacies that have tourists and locals lining up to try, and adorable, gorgeous-looking sweets!

Twenty of the stores are live sales, so you can enjoy the delicious aromas wafting from all around.

We will introduce some of the delicious food you can enjoy at the venue.

Meat gourmet food to go with your rice or alcohol!

First, meat!

[Miyazaki] Nobeoka Ogura "Chicken Nanban"

Image: Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store

"Chicken Nanban" from "Nobeoka Ogura," a long-established Western restaurant in Miyazaki, is available for takeout only (breast/thigh, 1,580 yen each).

This Chicken Nanban is made using specially ordered chicken from southern Kyushu, carefully prepared using a unique method, then deep-fried until tender, soaked in a secret sweet and sour sauce, and topped with a generous amount of homemade tartar sauce made from mayonnaise.

Enjoy the perfect harmony of chicken, sweet and sour, and tartar sauce.

In addition, the store's popular "fried shrimp" will be available for the first time at Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store in a "big size" specially for this event (set of two for 1,380 yen).

Image: Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store

They also sell a "Three-piece set of breast, thigh, and fried shrimp" (4,380 yen).

[Kagawa] Bone-in Chicken Ranmaru "Bone-in Chicken Chicks"

Image: Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store *The photo shows "Hina Bone-in Chicken"

"Bone-in chicken" is a local delicacy from Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture.

Ranmaru, a restaurant that serves spicy chicken on the bone that goes well with beer, is introducing the new "Bone-in Chicken Oya/Hina" (1,080 yen each), which is made by marinating domestic thigh meat in an original spice blend made from several different spices and grilling it.

We recommend trying the two chickens, "Oya Bone-in Chicken," which becomes more flavorful the more you chew it, and "Hina Bone-in Chicken," which has soft and juicy meat.

[Kyoto] Daitokuji Saikiya "Chicken roll lunch"

The Kyoto catering specialty store "Daitokuji Saikiya" will be selling the "Chicken Dashimaki Bento" (1,296 yen per box), a limited edition combination of their specialty rolled omelet and chicken.

Image: Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store

You can enjoy soft and fluffy Kyoto rolled omelet, slow-cooked chicken with Japanese pepper.

If you like, you can sprinkle the powdered Japanese pepper provided on the side!

[Nagasaki] Nagasaki Pork Bun Momotaro "Nagasaki Pork Bun"

Image: Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store

Speaking of Nagasaki's speciality, this is it! Nagasaki Butaman Momotaro's "Nagasaki Butaman" (10 pieces in a pack, 900 yen).

The only ingredients are pork and onion, and the skin is made from a specially blended, carefully selected flour, giving it a chewy and fluffy texture. Please heat it up at home and enjoy.

Popular items with many repeat customers! "Fish" gourmet food

Next up, fish!

[Tokyo] Ginza Fukutsuchi

Image: Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store

"Ginza Fukutsuchi" will be making its first appearance at the Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store. They will be selling "Natural Bluefin Tuna Medium Fatty Tuna" (2,484 yen per box).

A luxurious assortment of nigiri and maki made with the delicious "medium fatty tuna" of wild bluefin tuna, known as the king of tuna.

You can enjoy Edomae sushi at this price! It's like a dream come true.

[Ehime] Uwajima Yasuoka Kamaboko

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Among the products at the National Gourmet Competition, "Uwajima Jakoten" (5 pieces for 1,134 yen) from "Uwajima Yasuoka Kamaboko" is one that has a large number of repeat customers.

This Jakoten is made with fresh fish caught in Ehime Prefecture, and has a great aroma and texture. Once you try it, you'll be hooked.

Sweets are great for gifts too

Last but not least, there is sweets!

[Mie] Akafuku Teahouse "Akafuku Mochi Eating Tray"

At Akafuku Chaya you can enjoy Ise specialty "Akafuku Mochi" freshly made by craftsmen in the store's kitchen (last order 18:30 *16:30 on the final day).

You can enjoy the "Akafuku Mochi Omeshiageban" (Bancha 300 yen, Matcha 700 yen) which is a set of two "Akafuku Mochi" mochi sweets, which are soft mochi topped with strained bean paste, and bancha or matcha. *Limited quantity

Image: Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store

In addition, you can also purchase a box of 12 "Akafuku Mochi" (1,300 yen) in limited quantities. * "Purchase quantity confirmation tickets" will be distributed from 10:00 a.m. at the Akafuku corner on the 8th floor of the main building.

Image: Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store

[Mie] Isuzu Teahouse "SUN" and "SEN"

What's more, new products from Isuzuchaya, operated by Akafuku, will be making their first appearance in Fukuoka!

First up is the bite-sized rice cake "SUN."

On the left in the photo is "SUN Chocolate Mochi" (3 pieces for 900 yen, 5 pieces for 1,500 yen), which is mochi wrapped in a bittersweet and mellow chocolate paste, and on the right is "SUN Strawberry Mochi" (3 pieces for 900 yen, 5 pieces for 1,500 yen), which is mochi containing millet wrapped in strawberry paste that has been carefully cooked to bring out its subtle acidity and aroma.

Image: Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store

Next up is the Japanese-style financier "Sen Azuki."

This dish is made by filling rice flour dough with sweet bean paste and baking it together with plumply cooked red beans.

Image: Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store

[Hyogo] Yoshikawaya Shinshichi "Coffee Can"

The "Coffee Can" from Yoshikawaya Shinshichi, opening for the first time at Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin, is a colorful sweet treat packed with retro Showa-era coffee shop menu items in a can.

The lineup consists of six different flavors: "Lemon Squash" (970 yen), "Cream Soda" (972 yen), "Shortcake" (994 yen), "Pudding A La Mode" (1,150 yen), "Mont Blanc" (1,058 yen), and "Coffee Float" (864 yen).

Image: Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store

[Tokyo] MACAPRESSO "Tunkalon"

Image: Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store

This is also the first time that MACAPRESSO has opened a store at the Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store! They will be releasing 12 varieties of their hearty "chubby macarons" called "Tunkalon" (400 yen each).

Each of the 12 varieties uses butter from Hokkaido in the cream, giving it a rich aroma.

We have only introduced a small part of what will be on offer here. Please come and enjoy the delicious food from all over Japan. (Text/ARNE Editorial Department)

<Outline of the 38th National Delicious Food Competition>
Dates: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 to Monday, February 26, 2024
Time: 10:00-19:00 (final day closes at 17:00)
Venue: Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin Store, Main Building 8th Floor Event Hall
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