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What "omiyage" (souvenirs or gifts) do you bring back home with you after a trip to Japan? Or if you live in Japan, and your relatives or friends visit you, what "omiyage" do they take back home?
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seadog538
Otona no omocha for my Mother In Law.
Serrano
Definitely packs of that surume dried squid! Reactions from people are priceless. The mildest reaction was from my next door neighbor, who said, "I wouldn't seek it out."
Luddite
Tea
Biscuits
Twiglets
Pork Scratchings
Marmite and Marmite flavoured snacks. Marmite crisps are popular.
kohakuebisu
Packets of curry roux because my brother and niece really like it.
Various rice cracker type things for others.
Haaa Nemui
Yeah I misread and answered yesterday morning. Second part of my answer covers most of it for me though. I do also take some of the airism shirts and things from Uniqlo for family members back home. That's something they don't have (yet).
Toshihiro
Furoshiki cloth, chopsticks, fridge magnets and tabi socks are what my cousin gave us when he came from Japan. I think the best Omiyage are the ones that you can only find in Japan, the more traditional and native it is, the better of a souvenir it would be.
nandakandamanda
This question is about Japanese goods. I usually choose things that no-one has seen or heard of before.
JapanFan
Pastries and candy. Maybe something really special for some folks.
Maria
Bringing omiyage back:
I work in a large office of over 100 folk, and after my last several trips, I brought back lots of packets of different kinds of Marks & Spencer biscuits (the cheaper ones, not the fancy tins), and a large tin of a large variety of teabags. They fell upon the biscuits like starving kittens, and they like the teas too, though not the green-tea-based ones.
Otherwise, tea towels, marzipan, and whatever the airport shops have in tinned biscuits.
Haaa Nemui
Cereal (this seems to be the main thing I go for sometimes... Bringing back about 10kgs of different cereals from home), chocolate, a Manuka blend of honey or two, cookies, Brazil nuts, dried apricots, cheese, feijoa juice.
People taking stuff home... usually whiskey and nihon-shu, umeboshi and other Japanese snacks.