Kenpi

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Imo-kenpi (芋けんぴ, 芋 meaning "potato" (especially "sweet potato")) is a snack food and common omiyage/meibutsu from Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. They are strips of candied sweet potato, resembling french fries in appearance, but are hard and sugary sweet in taste. Now, in Japan, almost all super markets and convenience stores sell imo-kenpi of their own brands. You can get imo-kenpi everywhere. One Japanese manga describes imo-kenpi as an aphrodisiac. A phrase, "You have imo-kenpi in your hair." became famous in SNS. Imo-kenpi is made from 5 cm strips of raw sweet potato (the purple skinned variety, peeled) that is fried in 160 degrees Celsius oil until golden brown and most of the moisture has been extracted from the sweet potato (i.e. the foaming of the oil has stopped), leaving the cooled product crisp. The strips are drained of excess oil. A sugar glaze is made of granular sugar, a trace of salt for flavor, and water that is heated to just short of the hard boil stage over medium-low heat and then poured over the fried sweet potatoes. The strips are then separated, placed on a rack, and allowed to drain of any excess sugar until cool. The sugar sauce typically sugars as it glazes due to having been disturbed while hot or due to introduction of sugar crystals while cooling.…

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