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Mie Nanki Mikan (三重南紀みかん) is a Japanese mandarin orange from the southern tip of Mie Prefecture. Growers there ship citrus in almost every month of the year, which is rare in Japan. The brand covers Unshu mandarins from three town...

Sasa kamaboko, also called sasakama, is a leaf shaped grilled Japanese fish cake from Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture. Makers grind white fish into a seasoned paste, press it flat, then grill each piece until the surface browns lightly. For ...

Barappa manju is a steamed wheat-flour bun filled with sweet red bean paste, cooked on a single wild leaf. It comes from the Hokuso area of northern Chiba Prefecture, and people there eat it during summer festivals and Obon. The leaf giv...

Food in Japan is an English-language reference on Japanese regional cuisine, sake, and food culture. This page explains how the site researches, writes, and corrects its articles, so you can judge for yourself how much weight to give wha...

Two breweries can start with the same rice variety, the same well, and the same yeast. Yet the sake in the glass tastes nothing alike. The reason usually hides in a document that drinkers never see. Brewers call it the shikomi haigo. So ...

Some dishes tell you almost nothing about where they come from. Kozuyu is not one of them. Lift the small red lacquer bowl, taste the broth, and the whole story of Aizu arrives in a few mouthfuls. Picture a snowbound inland basin, no fre...

Trains from Tokyo reach Otsuki in about an hour. Hikers pour off the platform, and the small restaurants beside the station keep their miso pots warm all day. One dish appears on almost every menu board outside. Otsuke Dango is a traditi...

Slice a piece of karasumi paper-thin, put it on your tongue, and wait a second. The salt hits first. Then something richer arrives, closer to aged cheese than to fish, and it lingers well after the piece has gone. Quick answer Karasumi (...

Ten dollars does not buy much lunch in London or New York any more. In Japan, it still buys a proper meal, and often a very good one. Quick answer Yes, you can eat well in Japan for under $10. At roughly 163 yen to the dollar in late Jul...

At some point in every anime and manga, the action stops so that the character can eat something. Have you noticed the food is never too creative? Everyone eats the same few things. Ramen, bento, meat skewers, rinse and repeat. You hardl...