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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Japanese; see konjac.]

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  • It was only after I bought one that he told me the noodles were imitation and made out of konnyaku, a gelatin made out of potato starch.

    A Tour of Tokyo's Geek Paradise Yukari Iwatani Kane 2010

  • For $6.25 a lb. youhave a choice of 4traditional Japanese snacks/condiments, which the day I was there included seaweed, stewed daikon, dried fish and konnyaku (which I had already gotten with my bento).

    Takoyaki Comes to Midtown @ the 47th St. Japanese Convenience Store & Deli | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2007

  • A piece of fried fish, a Japanese meatball, rice, shumai and konnyaku (which is this glutinouspotato flour thing) that I really enjoyed.

    Takoyaki Comes to Midtown @ the 47th St. Japanese Convenience Store & Deli | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2007

  • But instead ofcooking chunks of actual seafood in it, we cut dolphin and other animal shapes out of konnyaku, the jelly-like Japanese yam cake.

    Celeriac Miso Soup 2009

  • The noodles are made from konnyaku to prevent them from going soggy when they soak up the noodle soup.

    Canned Ramen » Fanboy.com 2007

  • A popular dish is Hijiki No Nimono, which is basically seaweed mixed with carrots, konnyaku, abura age and simmered in soy sauce, fish stock, sugar and mirin.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Tokyoastrogirl 2006

  • One of my favorite light dinners is Brussels sprouts and konnyaku simmered oden style with a bowl of rice on the side.

    Tuna Toast Tokyoastrogirl 2006

  • A popular dish is Hijiki No Nimono, which is basically seaweed mixed with carrots, konnyaku, abura age and simmered in soy sauce, fish stock, sugar and mirin.

    Tuna Toast Tokyoastrogirl 2006

  • This sukiyaki we had was a large bowl of soup stock, which had a slightly sweet flavour, and packed with paper-thin slices of beef, leeks, onion, shiitake mushrooms, silken tofu, konnyaku noodles translucent noodles made from a yam-like plant and fu, a glutinous rice dumpling that I have to admit none of us really took to.

    Sukiyaki with the Yakitori lady Niki 2005

  • This sukiyaki we had was a large bowl of soup stock, which had a slightly sweet flavour, and packed with paper-thin slices of beef, leeks, onion, shiitake mushrooms, silken tofu, konnyaku noodles translucent noodles made from a yam-like plant and fu, a glutinous rice dumpling that I have to admit none of us really took to.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Niki 2005

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