Bakauke

Japanese snack food
Bakauke
Japanese name ばかうけ
Maker Kuriyama Beika
Ingredients rice flour

Flavours:

  • Chili
  • Nori
  • Sesame
  • Cheese
  • Kimchi
  • Curry (sold only in "bakauke deluxe" multipacks).
  • Peanut
  • Sweet (sold only in "bakauke deluxe" multipacks).

Bakauke (ばかうけ?) is a Japanese snack food. It is a thin banana-shaped senbei with various flavours added. It is manufactured by Kuriyama Beika (栗山米菓) of Niigata Prefecture.

The word bakauke in the Niigata dialect of Japanese colloquially means "extremely well received"[1]. The characters who appear on the packets are Borin and Barin, who are boyfriend and girlfriend respectively.

Citations

  1. ^ "ばかうけって何？". http://www.baka.ne.jp/home/bakaukekouza.htm#Q2. "栗山米菓の本社があります"新潟県"の方言で、「ばか」＝「すごい」という意味合いで使われているんだよ！" 

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