Product information
About
Himemaru are small round rice crackers, fried and coated in a soy glaze with chilli, mandarin peel and flakes of aosa, a green seaweed. Buy them for a savoury handful with a little sweetness and some heat; if you want plain, unseasoned rice crackers, this is the wrong bag.
On the pack: 天乃屋の姫丸 (Amanoya no Himemaru). In Japanese, hime marks something small and cute and maru means round, so the name is roughly "little round one". The English ingredient list calls the aosa seaweed laver.
What you're getting
- The pack rates the heat medium (中辛, chūkara), from chilli pepper in the seasoning.
- Fried, not baked: crisp, and rich and oily the way fried crackers are, not light like a baked one.
- Knobbly, bite-size balls: one goes in whole.
- Not the same cracker as Kabuki-age, Amanoya's better-known fried cracker: Himemaru is round, bite-size and spiced.
- Allergens: contains wheat and soy. The factory also handles peanuts and crustaceans, so traces are possible. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.
- Also on the label: another Himemaru recipe carrying the same barcode adds bonito, a fish, to the seasoning. If you avoid fish, check the ingredient list for bonito.
Once the bag is open, clip it shut or keep the rest in an airtight container: in humid air rice crackers go soft.
Ingredients
Non glutinous rice, vegetable oil (palm oil, rice bran oil), modified starch (wheat, cassava, corn), sugar, soy sauce (water, soybeans, wheat, salt, glucose, rice, monosodium glutamate, disodium 5'-ribonucleotide), high fructose corn syrup, spices (mandarin orange peel, chili pepper), monosodium glutamate, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, laver, salt, seasoning (hydrolyzed protein (soybeans)), caramel color.
For your safety, please check both the information on this page and the printed label on the pack. If anything is unclear or the information differs, please contact us before consuming the product.
Allergens
- Contains
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- Wheat
- Soy
- May contain
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- Peanut
- Crustacean
Not ingredients — these are made or handled on the same equipment as this product, so traces are possible. We list every shared-equipment allergen stated on the pack or by the maker.
For your safety, please check both the information on this page and the printed label on the pack. If anything is unclear or the information differs, please contact us before consuming the product.
Details
- Maker
- Amanoya · Tokyo
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One 98 g bag
The maker
Where it comes from
- Amanoya
- Tokyo
- Founded 1953
Amanoya's founder began selling amanatto, beans simmered in sugar, in Tokyo in 1951. The company was set up in 1953 and began frying rice crackers a year later.
In 1960 it launched Kabuki-age, a fried rice cracker it still makes. Its head office and Tokyo factory are in Musashimurayama, in western Tokyo.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: amanoyausa.com (opens in a new tab)
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