Kenpi

Imo-kenpi (芋けんぴ, 芋 meaning "potato" (especially "sweet potato")) is a snack food and common omiyage/meibutsu from Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. They are strips of candied sweet potato, resembling french fries in appearance, but are hard and sugary sweet in taste. Now, in Japan, almost all super markets and convenience stores sell imo-kenpi of their own brands. You can get imo-kenpi everywhere. One Japanese manga describes imo-kenpi as an aphrodisiac. A phrase, "You have imo-kenpi in your hair." became famous in SNS. Imo-kenpi is made from 5 cm strips of raw sweet potato (the purple skinned variety, peeled) that is fried in 160 degrees Celsius oil until golden brown and most of the moisture has been extracted from the sweet potato (i.e. the foaming of the oil has stopped), leaving the cooled product crisp. The strips are drained of excess oil.

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