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Chanpuru, a staple dish in Okinawan izakayas and restaurants. It can found as a side dish in a lot of supermarkets and convenience stores. There is a wide variety of dishes, including the nationally famous Goya Chanpuru, Okinawan tofu, k...

Speaking of popular Japanese cuisine, which dish would cross your mind? Sushi, Takoyaki, Shabushabu, yakiniku, etc there are so many well-known and delicious dishes. However, today we are going to introduce “Onigiri”, which you can easil...

Sake (or Japanese rice wine) is a classic Japanese alcoholic beverage with so many types and the process of making it reqires a lot of time and effort. There are so many standards for making a good quality sake. How much i...

Dango is a Japanese sweet that has been loved by Japanese people for a long time, and many people miss it during the cherry blossom and moon viewing seasons. You can easily get dango at supermarkets, but what is the different between the...

Shinshu (now Nagano Prefecture) is said to be the birthplace of soba-kiri. Nagano Prefecture has a large temperature difference between day and night, and the well-drained mountainous fields are suitable for cultivating buckwheat. There ...

Speaking of gyoza, many people will immediately think of Hamamatsu or Utsunomiya gyoza. However, Chiba Prefecture's local food "White Gyoza" looks completely different from the gyoza you've ever tried. These gyoza dumplings have a volumi...

Ishikawa Prefecture is a place where the culture of eating rice cakes has been rooted since ancient times. For example, various mochi dishes such as "Aburi mochi", "Hippari mochi", "Tobitsuki mochi", and "Tochi mochi'' are eaten througho...

Hakata's specialty "Torikawa" is popular because its special texture: the outside is crispy while the inside is chewy and juicy. If you are living in Japan, you can easily find Tori kawa everywhere you go, from convenience stores to the ...

Have you ever heard of Shojin cuisine? This is a branch of Japanese cuisine and is now attracting worldwide attention due to healthy food trend. Daikon radish, tofu, yuba, sesame tofu, namafu, konnyaku, and pumpkin are often us...

If you come to Japan, you can find that Menchi Katsu is sold at almost every supermarket and butcher shop. This dish may be the favourite of a lot of people since they were children. Sometimes it is called "minced katsu". Which one is co...