Desiccated Foods (乾物)
Desiccated foods are foods that have been dried with the aim of enhancing flavor and storage qualities. Stores that specialize in desiccated foods are known as 'dried food stores' however, such stores have become scarce in recent times and in their stead, supermarkets, department stores and internet shopping retail have spread. As part of trade between China and Japan, Japanese desiccated foods were a commodity brought into China (Three types of desiccated foods were often used as an ingredient in Chinese food: shark fin, dried abalone and, dried sea cucumber). In China, these items were known as 'gan huo' (dried food).
Main Desiccated Foods
Vegetables, edible wild plants, edible fungus
Dried gourd
Dried strips of daikon radish
Judas's ear (auricularia auricula)
Shiitake mushrooms
Dried Shimeji mushrooms
Yamakurage (dried stem lettuce)
Flowering fern
Dried potato
Dried leaf
Dried taro
Fruit (Dried Fruit)
Raisins
Chinese wolfberry fruit (Lycium chinense)
Dried persimmon
Agar-agar
Seaweed laver ("nori")
Green laver (Enteromorpha)
Hijiki (edible brown algae)
rame seaweed (Eisenia bicylis)
Kelps: kelp for making soup stocks, yam kelp, Oboro kelp, kelp root, natto (fermented soybean) kelp
Wakame seaweed
Seafood
Shark fin
Dried abalone
Dried sea cucumber
Dried prawns
Dried and sliced herring
Dried shellfish
Dried codfish
Saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis)
Salted jellyfish
Dried bonito
Dried sardines
Dried young sardines
Toba dried salmon
Dried squid
Dried squid formed in the shape of tokkuri (sake bottles)
Dried octopus
Dried lamprey eel
- used as a health food.
Other
Tea
Freeze-dried bean curd
Jerky
Oil cake (edible)
Fu (bread-like pieces of wheat gluten)
Dried konjak (devil's tongue jelly)
Dried noodles