Fried Maple Leaf

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Going leaf-peeping without eating fried maple leaves? Didn't count. They're actual maple leaves, fried, and surprisingly crispy and sweet. Still, they taste most in season with red leaves all around.

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❝ Fried maple leaves are a specialty of Minoo, near Osaka, Japan. Legend has it that about 1,300 years ago En no Gyoja, an ascetic training on Mount Minoo, was so taken with the autumn leaves that he fried them up and served them to passing travelers. ❞

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