干しイモ Half dried sweet potato

昨年、会社を退社し茨城へ行った友人から
干し芋が送られて来ました。

干し芋なんて別に全国どこでもあるでしょ？？
でも、茨城の干し芋はちょっと違う。
普通はスライスされているけど、これは丸ごとだね。
サイズも全然小さい。
茨城県民の友人は数人居るけど、干し芋の話してた奴は
いなかったが名物なんだって。

まぁ、言ゆたって芋でしょ・・・・。ってナメてたらイカンっ！
超甘～ぃ！
もう、何やろこの甘さはっ!?
芋の域を超えてる。これはスイーツよ。
緑茶とメチャクチャ合う。
半生状態なので、そのまま食べても良いが、レンジで温めると甘さが倍増。
いやぁ、参りました！
これは美味い！

I’ve got a gift, half dried sweet potato, from friend who resigned our company and now living in Ibaraki prefecture.

You may think we can find the dried potato everywhere, right?

But the Ibaraki’s is little different with the normal one.
The normal one is sliced and dried but this is full size, not sliced, and also the size is much smaller.
I have some other friends, living Ibaraki, but no one talk about this dried potato but it seems to be very popular in Ibaraki.

I think everybody think it is just dried potato so not so tasty, right?

BUT!!! This is much sweeter than I expected.
This sweetness is absolutely beyond sweet potato level.
This is close to potato cake and fit with green tea.
It is half dried so I can eat it as is but if I make it hot by microwave oven the sweetness will be double.

I was really surprised with this good taste!