The Japanese traditional confectionery, wagashi, is very delicately shaped and flavored with natural ingredients such as agar, strained azuki beans, and yomogi (mugwort) leaf. In Japan, seasonality plays an important part of their food culture, [Read more...]
Wagashi is the generic term for Japanese-style confections, which include not just sweets, but also savory snack foods like the soy-sauce-flavored arare or the recent hit, wasabi peas. However, when a Japanese person talks about wagashi it usually [Read more...]
In Japan, amazake (hot sweet sake) is sometimes served during the New Year’s visit to a shrine or the Girls’ Festival in March. Contents: Sweet Hot Drink, Amazake How to cook Amazake? Recommended Amazake Products Sweet Hot Drink, [Read more...]
Contents: What are Soba Noodles? Types of Soba Nutritional Value Different Soba Styles How to eat Soba? How to cook Soba? What are Soba Noodles? Originally, soba was eaten in the form of sobagaki (a dumpling made of soba flour [Read more...]
You will like unagi in your sushi rolls or perhaps as a part of your omakase course. Or, maybe you just like to eat white rice with eel sauce (if you haven’t, it’s a game changer, try it). No matter what form, or what you call it whether “unagi” or [Read more...]
