Our Shiitake are cultivated 100% naturally outdoors on special sweet sap oak logs in Kyushu, Japan, recognized as the best tasting and textured. Moreover, our drying and packaging process keeps the moisture content to < 9% which enhances the Shiitake flavor and Vitamin D content.

Sugimoto Shiitake promotes 100% natural and sustainable cultivation using only carefully selected local cultivators and are certified Kosher and Organic!

The most popular dried DONKO Shiitake mushroom on Amazon Japan. Japanese famous chef, Dr. Yukio Hattori, chose our Shiitake for his traditional Japanese New Year foods "Osechi." He is known as an expert commentator on the Japanese television show "Iron Chef." His cooking school recommends our Shiitake and allows us to use his name on our products.

This shiitake mushroom is called “Donko”. It is harvested while it is still budding, producing a thicker and meatier mushroom, bite-size, 25-42mm.

Our dried Shiitake mushrooms are from Kyushu (a Southern Island of Japan) and cultivated using Japanese Sawtooth Oak (“kunugi” in Japanese) which are recognized as the best. Kunugi logs give the Shiitake mushroom a distinctive sweet and deep flavor.