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Chawanmushi (茶碗蒸しChawanmushi literally tea cup steam or steamed in a tea bowl) is an egg custard dish found in Japan that uses the seeds of ginkgo. Unlike many other custards it is usually eaten as a dish in a meal. The custard consists of an egg mixture flavored with soy sauce dashi and mirin with numerous ingredients such as shiitake mushrooms kamaboko yuri-ne (lily root) and boiled shrimp placed into a tea-cup-like container.
