Unwrapping the Japanese Peanuts in Mexican Style

Japanese Peanuts or Japoneses

The Japoneses or the Japanese peanuts, which are found abundantly in Mexico, are crunchy shell nuts that are coated with a tad amount of soy sauce. They are made predominantly with ingredients such as peanuts, wheat flour, and soy sauce but there may also be additional ingredients such as rice flour, salt, potato starch and leavening agents like baking soda to evoke different flavors. The compelling taste of briny and sugariness combined with the crunchiness tantalizes the taste buds making it to linger around for a while.

Japanese Peanuts and Mexico

As against the suggestion of the name, the origin of Japonese is traced back to the Mexican city, which can quintessentially be called as the paradise of snacks. The Mexican city produces a few more than twenty thousand tones of Cacahuates Estilo Japones that translates as ‘Japanese style peanuts’ which are sold like hot cakes since the demands are ever increasing. The Japonese, in addition, find its place as appetizers along with likes of pickled vegetables, seafood cocktails and many such more in the places to cater to the tourist’s taste buds.

It is believed that, this kind of peanuts was first introduced by the Japanese immigrant in Mexico, Yoshigei Nakatani, who made humble beginning of preparing the nuts in the morning and selling it off by afternoon. But in the early years of 1970s, they made it big with the factory production only to be succeeded by many other replicas.

Japanese Peanuts Online

The Japanese style peanuts are so popular in Mexico that it has found a place in every single super market or any other grocery stores. It is these peanuts that the tourists relish and devour during their trip to Mexico, so much so that they find it a real hard to come across anywhere else.

The ingressions of many online stores that are selling many Mexican snacks including that of the Japanese peanuts are now on the rise. They offer variety of these snacks including the Japonese in lime flavor.

In summary, the success of the Japanese peanuts in Mexico can be attributed to the fact of being a Mexican product yet distinctively a product of diverse cultures.

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