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Local specialties
Chitake Soba
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Soba from the plains of Tochigi, eaten with a broth made by stir-frying chitake (chichitake mushroom) and eggplant.

Ramen
Sano Ramen
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Ramen from Sano City, Tochigi Prefecture, combining irregular curly noodles kneaded with a green bamboo pole and a clear soy sauce–flavored soup.

Local specialties
Shimotsukare
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A Tochigi local dish in which daikon grated with an oni-oroshi (coarse grater), soybeans, salted salmon heads, and other ingredients are simmered with sake lees.

B-class classics
Utsunomiya Gyoza
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The local gyoza of Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture, based on pan-fried gyoza, with deep-fried and boiled gyoza also popular.