QUERY: Do you know, cook, eat Kaniaku (or Konnyaku)?

[Guest guest]

OK, I THINK it's spelled konnyaku, although that's not what it said on the menu

on

Saturday. I selected a nice veggie dish of sauteed konnyaku with vegetables (I

remember

baby corn, bamboo shoot, carrot, celery or something green (I forget) - and

goodness

knows what else.). I'd never had this before, so I figured 'Nothing ventured . .

.. ' and it was

delicious! OK, new food found, and I was told it was made out of 'yam powder',

which

seems to accord with what I found on a web search - a relative of the sweet

potato family.

 

It was cut in fancy shapes, in a finely cut criss-cross pattern, and didn't have

a lot of

flavour of its own but picked up from the sauce etc. It had a texture quite

unlike anything

veggie that I've had before - firm yet springy. The net article said I could buy

it in blocks,

like tofu, but I swear I've never seen it.

 

So okay, has anyone more knowledge of it? Is it typically Japanese, or is it

called

something else in other cuisines? (Next time we take a hike down to our

favourite Asian

grocer I'm going to be asking for it. Fingers crossed!)

 

Thanks in advance. Love, Pat