Names found in vending machines

Sekihan

Sekihan 赤飯 is sticky rice (mochigome もち米) cooked with red beans. It's cooked for celebrations such as o-bon, which ends today. A basic recipe would call for 3 cups of glutinous rice, 1/3 cup adzuki beans, a little salt, and water. Cook it the usual way for rice and serve it at room temperature, topped with roasted sesame seeds.

When my wife told her family we were engaged, after the shock wore off ("Couldn't you find somebody younger?") her grandmother invited us over for sekihan, a way of giving her approval to the match, I think.

Some more festival food

From the last night of Awa Odori in Tokushima.

Candied apple.

Hamburgers

Baby kasutera

Lee bought some baby kasutera, a popular Japanese cake based on Portugese Pão de Castela which was introtuced to Japan by (who else?) the Portugese about 400 years ago.

Takoyaki

Raw bacon sushi topped with mayo

Weiner sushi