What's This in Japan? - Super Veggie

Can you identify this jumbo vegetable? It's indispensible for Japanese cooking.

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• Japan
• Japanese
• Whatsit
• Tokaido
• Softypapa

[Quindal]

i wish i was a milionaire so i could go walking around in japan

[softypapa]

@Quindal I hope that you get a chance to enjoy the area wherever you are. Perhaps one day you can come to Japan as well. I'm no millionaie though as they say where there is a will there may be a way. Have a great weekend! ~Kurt :-)

[yashikospillowbook]

mmmm daikon!!! I love it. I actually might make some tonight.

[softypapa]

Hello yashikospillowbook, You are correct in identifying this as daikon! Thanks for watching and adding your answer! -Kurt :-)

[habiebiee]

大根:D

[softypapa]

正解 -Kurt :-)

[Opticon48]

Most certainly Diakon--the big (very big ) white radish. I make a savory Chinese style stewed beef and put big cut pieces in to cook along with the beef. The diakon we get here has very little flavor of it's own, but it absorbs the taste of the stew like a sponge. I also put it into a western-style vegetable beef soup that I make as well. The whole family loves it, even my husband who is a picky eater and very wary of most "foreign" foods.

[MizNouP]

My family used to plant diakon. I had one heck of a time trying to pull those buggers out. Had some the size of my forearms and I'm not a small person. hahaha.

[Geefa1234]

I like to watching harvest Daikon,make me feel want to pull out of the ground so much, I really want to grow big Daikon like in Japan but I dont know how they care for it?? do you know how to care for to grow Daikon??

[1crazyfocker]

hmmmm, its called google, so not really hard to find out the name......even jokes and riddles can be found by most search engines

[starshock01]

Daikon <3

[AnimeMinder]

This vegetable is called Daikon (Radish)..



[awsomenesscaleb]

Japan being the small-sized country it is, and its culture embracing many aspects of being small and compact, this giant radish is kind of... out of place.

[inkuissuper]

its a horse radish in english i think...

but its daikon love it when its cooked