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tokoroten

tokoroten noun: a dish in Japanese cuisine made from agarophytes, traditionally by boiling tengusa (Gelidium amansii) and then allowing the mixture to congeal into a jelly.

tokoroten: a dish in Japanese cuisine made from agarophytes, traditionally by boiling tengusa (Gelidium...
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Noun

tokoroten (uncountable)

  1. A dish in Japanese cuisine made from agarophytes, traditionally by boiling tengusa (Gelidium amansii) and then allowing the mixture to congeal into a jelly.
    • Vendors now sell gold fish through the streets, along with hawkers of tokoroten, or sea-weed jelly, and gaily decorated wind bells.1925, The Brooklyn Museum Quarterly, volume 12, page 42
    • You ate peanuts and tokoroten, so you’re probably past saving.1991, Yasushi Inoue, translated by Jean Oda Moy, Shirobamba, London; Chester Springs, Pa.: Peter Owen Publishers, →ISBN, page 189

Examples of tokoroten in a sentence

  • About 350 years ago, it was discovered accidentally when Lord Shimazu had some unused tokoroten left in his garden in Kyoto.2008 July 15, Audrey Wilson, “Cooking with Japanese jello”, in Hawaii Tribune-Herald, number 197, page C2, column 6:
  • In Asia, agar is used in many traditional dishes, such as red bean jelly, tokoroten noodles and mitsumame.2010, Stefan Gates, Stefan Gates on E Numbers, Octopus Publishing Group, →ISBN:
  • The main course was fried beef cutlets, followed by tokoroten, a jellied agar garnished with dark molasses, for dessert.2019 January 17, Shingo Masuda, “Discover Asakusa’s charms aboard ‘kimono rickshaws’”, in Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 137th year, number 351...
  • Limu manauea (Hawaii); agar-agar (Philippines) / direct human food; source of food-grade agar; used in the production of tokoroten2022, Avinash Mishra, editor, Algal Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals: Benefits, Opportunities, and Challenges, Bentham Books, →ISBN...

Origin of tokoroten

From Japanese 心太 (tokoroten).

Questions about tokoroten

What does tokoroten mean?
Tokoroten means a dish in Japanese cuisine made from agarophytes, traditionally by boiling tengusa (Gelidium amansii) and then allowing the mixture to congeal into a jelly.
How do you use tokoroten in a sentence?
About 350 years ago, it was discovered accidentally when Lord Shimazu had some unused tokoroten left in his garden in Kyoto.
What part of speech is tokoroten?
Tokoroten is a noun.

Words near tokoroten in the dictionary

  1. tokophobia
  2. tokophobic
  3. Tokoroa
  4. tokorogenin
  5. tokoronin
  6. tokoroten
  7. Tokorozawa
  8. tokos
  9. tokoyama
  10. Tokpela
  11. Toks

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