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Have you ever heard of Osechi Ryori? This is the special food for Japanese on New Year. Osechi consists of many colorful dishes packed together in a box "jubako". Each ingredient and dish of osechi is full of wishes for a bountiful harve...

Shougayaki is one of Japan's representative home-cooked dishes that is really familiar with Japanese. How do you make Shougayaki at home? In fact, depending on the ingredients and seasoning, it can be a completely different dis...

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...

If you come to visit Asukusa in Tokyo, Japan, you can find a lot of interesting things from Japanese style decorations or omamori (Japanese good luck charm). However, we recommend you buy Ningyo yaki as souvenir for friends and family as...

If you come to visit Asakusa, there are so many good souvenirssaminari Okoshi is a well-known specialty of Asakusa (Tokyo). In Japanese, Kaminari means "thunder". But why is it called “thunder”? Is it because it makes a crunching so...

 When autumn comes, a lot of autumn ingredients will be on the market. It's everyone's favorite season not only because of the cool weather but also because of good food. Speaking of seasonal food of autumn, what is the first t...

There are hundreds of matsuri (Japanese traditional festival) all over Japan when summer comes. At matsuri, you can enjoy a lot of Japanese traditional food such as yakisoba, yakitori, ikayaki, etc. Today, we would like to introduce Kaki...

Curry is one of the famous dishes in Japan. As a matter of fact, they often serve it in three different ways. These are curry rice, curry bread, and curry udon. In addition to that, they developed new dishes that go well with curry. For ...

If you are a fan of Japanese cuisine, you may have heard or eaten Sukiyaki before before. However, have you heard about Kanto style Sukiyaki and Kansai style Sukiyaki? In this article, we will introduce about the history, characteristic ...

For hundreds of years, Unagi has been popular not only in Japan but also all over the world as a healthy and luxurious dish. However, do you wonder what makes this dish so expensive? Today, we would like to introduce about Unagi no Kabay...