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Kinpira gobo is a very popular side dish (okazu) of Japanese food. Despite its name, nowadays, people not only use burdock roots for Kinpira gobo, but also carrots, mushrooms, radish skins, eggplants, and other vegetables. However, it mi...

In Japan, people celebrate Jinjitsu no sekku (or Nanakusa no sekku) annually on January 7. On this day, Japanese have the custom of eating Nanakusa gayu (seven-herb rice porridge) hoping for good health for the coming year. So, when did ...

Speaking of Japanese sweets, wagashi (Japanese traditional sweets) may be the first one to cross your mind. Daifuku, Dango, Dorayaki, Taiyaki, etc are the popular wagashi with ingredients such as red bean paste and mochi. However, apart ...

If you visit some random candy stores in Japan, you can easily find the star-like candies called "Konpeito". This candy is so popular in Japan that it is also used in many special occasions. It is said that there is no exact recipe for m...

Who doesn't know Yakisoba? It's one of the most famous kinds of noodles available in many countries. In fact, plenty of restaurants worldwide have this on their menus. Despite its origin tracing back to China, Yakisoba plays a huge part ...

Are you looking for a delicious dessert for hot summer days? If you are still wondering and do not know which to choose, let us recommend you coffee jelly, one type of jelly that is very common in Japan. Today, we will introduce about it...

We can say that Japanese people are so in love with fried food, from karaage (唐揚げ), kakiage (かき揚げ) to satsuma age (さつま揚げ). There are so many dishes, right?! But that is not all! Today, we are going to introduce another fried ...

If you are a fan of Japanese cuisine, you may have heard of Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き) before. This dish can be found all over Japan, such as Kansai-style, Hiroshima-style, monjayaki in Tokyo, and dondon-yaki in Tohoku. Each region is...

"Korokke" is a standard dish of Western-style Japanese food. During the Taisho period, it was one of the three major western dishes along with curry rice and tonkatsu. There are many different types of korokke, depending on the ingredien...

Japanese food always surprises us with a lot of amazing delicious dishes. Have you ever heard of tamago tofu (egg tofu)? Some people may think that it is a dish made by mixing eggs while producing tofu. However, this is not what that dis...