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Real Wasabi

FOOD: Real Wasabi

Almost all of the wasabi served up in restaurants and sold in stores is fake. Wasabi is considered the most difficult plant in the world to grow commercially, yet for the past century, the Daio Wasabi Farm in Hokata, Japan has been growing it successfully with natural spring water from nearby mountains.

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