{"id":24,"featured":0,"modified":"2025-12-04 01:38:38","latitude":40.767346000000003414243110455572605133056640625,"longitude":-111.8950459999999935689629637636244297027587890625,"title":"Visiting Grandma&#039;s manju shop","subtitle":"","fullsize":"https://utahjapantownstories.com/files/fullsize/d8f7f03259745ee2ca0d3b7df9b918f1.jpg","address":"130 W. 1st So.","all_locations":[],"zoom":15,"creator":["Craig Nagasawa"],"description":"Transcript:<br />\r\n<br />\r\nCraig Nagasawa: &quot;Mihoya was a manju shop run by my grandmother. It was just down the street from the fish market. They would daily make a whole new batch of manju and there were these glass cases in the front that they would all go in and these little lacquer boxes. People would come in and either buy a whole bunch at one time in a big box or you could buy even just one manju if you wanted. There was all kinds, there was the steamed kind, there was the sort of soft, chewy kind. At New Year&#039;s, there was the pounded rice mochi, and then there was all this Japanese confectionery stuff in packages that came from Japan—candy, kids’ candy, and senbei, all of those kinds of Japanese goods were all in there.<br />\r\n<br />\r\n My grandmother was mostly—at first, she was always at the fish market, but once things—when I grew up, my mother started working there as well. So then my grandmother moved down and opened Mihoya. So again, we would just run back and forth between them. I used to play them off against each other. I&#039;d be like, “Can you give me a dime so I can go get some candy at Mihoya?” and then give me a dime at Sunrise, I&#039;d run down to and buy something for a dime. then I’d asked my grandmother, “Can you give me a dime so I can buy something back at Sunrise?”  And of course, it was all the same family, so they could care less. They&#039;d give me a dime and I&#039;d run back up to the fish market and I&#039;d buy like an orange soda pop or something.There was always this going on. We were always bargaining with the adults to try to get some candy or something.&quot;<br />","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":[],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://utahjapantownstories.com/files/fullsize/d8f7f03259745ee2ca0d3b7df9b918f1.jpg":{"id":47,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Mihoya Confectioner, Aloha Café and Salt Lake Judo Center.","description":"Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive","thumbnail":"https://utahjapantownstories.com/files/square_thumbnails/d8f7f03259745ee2ca0d3b7df9b918f1.jpg"},"https://utahjapantownstories.com/files/original/aef6eaa0b440622496d69725a3d158f3.mp3":{"id":35,"mime-type":"audio/mpeg","title":"Visiting Grandma&#039;s manju shop","description":"Craig Nagasawa"}}}