Japanese food

Last update September 19, 2025

Japanese Food - Abura Aghe -




  

Abura Age/Aburaghe

Fried Tōfu or a fried bean curd

Order “Kitsune Udon” (or Fox Udon) at a Japanese Udon restaurant and wait. You’ll be served a hot Udon dish with sweet soy-sauced juicy sheets of Abura Aghe. For unknown reasons, Abura Aghe traditionally relates to foxes (probably due to its brownish colour), and folklore says it’s a favourite food of the animal (It’s just said so, and I’ve never seen them eating one!). Anyway, the word Abura Aghe literally means to “fry with/in oil” (fry: Agheru; oil: Abura). What’s fried then? It’s Tōfu, typical health food in Japan!

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Abura Aghe.
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Kitsune Udon with a sheet of Abura Aghe.
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Inari Zushi with Sushi rice wrapped with Abura Aghe.
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Miso Shiru of spinach and Abura Aghe.
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Abura Aghe.

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Kitsune Udon with a sheet of Abura Aghe.

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Inari Zushi with Sushi rice wrapped with Abura Aghe.

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Miso Shiru of spinach and Abura Aghe.