Green Tea
Strawberry
GENKI TSUKUSHI Rice
Recommendations
- Hakata Amaou Strawberry
"Hakata Amaou" strawberry is an original variety of Fukuoka, and is only produced in Fukuoka. It is a highly-rated and popular strawberry variety within Japan. The strawberry is featured with vivid-red-colored fruit pulp and the well- balanced of sweetness and sourness. Strawberry contains vitamin C which has beneficial effect for skin health.
- Fukuoka’s Yame Green Tea
“Fukuoka’s Yame Green Tea" is grown in the southern part of Fukuoka Prefecture. Grown in a magnificent natural environment and traditional cultivation techniques, the tea is with enchanting aroma, full, rich and round flavor. " Fukuoka’s Yame Green Tea" is one of the most famous tea varieties in Japan. The savory taste comes from the theanine in the tea leaves which produces tranquilizing effects in the brain and body.
- Fukuoka Products Export Promotion Council
Locating at the north of Kyushu, Fukuoka is a prefecture with both farmlands and developed urban areas. Agricultural products such as vegetables and fruits (grapes, pears, persimmon, mandarin oranges and strawberries etc.) are exported to overseas cities like Hong Kong. Among all the exported agricultural products, "Hakata Amaou" is promoted as the best variety of Japanese strawberry in Hong Kong. Apart from vegetables and fruits, Fukuoka also produces many high quality food such as "Fukuoka’s Yame Green Tea" ,the many-times winner of Gyokuro (Japanese Tea) contests, and "Fukuoka Nori"(Japanese dried seaweed) farmed in the Ariake Sea.
- Genkitsukushi Rice
“Genkitsukushi” rice is a newly developed variety in Fukuoka. It is famous for grainy, shiny and firm rice texture. The taste will not change even when it has cooled down. Moreover, the flavor can be kept for nearer a year with proper storage. This delicious rice can give you energy.