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title: Freshly boiled corn and sasa-dango
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# Freshly boiled corn and sasa-dango

A little of each town’s story　/　Nozawaonsen, Nagano

Eaten with the onsen tamago beside the Ogama. The corn was boiled fresh and handed over piping hot by the shopkeeper, with just the right touch of salt; the dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves was boiled soft as well.

## This moment in the journey: Onsen tamago and corn

On a blue plate: steaming corn and a sasa-dango dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves. The corn and the dumpling had been boiled fresh by the shopkeeper who sold them. And then the classic, onsen tamago. All I had done was keep to the time, yet when I peeled the shell the white quivered like jelly.

The yolk was soft and runny. It was a cold morning, but with every steaming bite the chill slipped away. I sat on a bench under the little shelter and ate breakfast looking out over the rooftops of the town.

![Freshly boiled corn and a sasa-dango on a blue plate](https://karigurashijourney.com/img/nozawa/s23-1200.jpg)

Read this scene in the full journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/nozawa/