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Last update September 9, 2025

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Tara No Me

Japanese Angelica Tree Shoot

Along with Fuki No To and Kogomi, it’s a spring Sansai (mountain vegetable) with a pleasantly bitter taste. It refers to a shoot of Tara No Ki (Aralia elata), as the name Tara No Me (shoot of Tara) indicates. The most popular way to enjoy the food is Tempura, and it’s definitely not for children (they won’t find it delicious to begin with), but for refined, mature palates, its Tempura in early spring will become a die-hard habit once you’ve acquired this slightly bitter early spring taste. To break a body-shrinking icy winter, a Sansai Tempura home party with Tara No Me is a humble (actually, it doesn’t cost much at all) Wabi-Sabi way to celebrate a long-awaited spring.

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Tempura of Tara No Me. 		japanese-food-taranome-natural
Tara No Ki with Tara No Me.
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Tempura of Tara No Me.

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Tara No Ki with Tara No Me.