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This Japanese snack shop has been serving roasted rice cakes to Shinto worshippers for over 1,000 years

Name: This Japanese snack shop has been serving roasted rice cakes to Shinto worshippers for over 1,000 years
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Meg Teckman-Fullard,Amelia KosciulekMay 10, 2021, 20:16 IST

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Ichimonjiya Wasuke, known as Ichiwa, was founded in the year 1001 to serve the Shinto priests at the adjacent Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, Japan.
The only item on the menu is aburi-mochi, roasted rice cakes on skewers that are dipped in sweet miso sauce.
Worshippers pray for good health at the shrine and then eat the aburi-mochi as an unofficial part of the ritual.