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Summary One of Japan’s most traditional foods, mochi is now widely eaten all around the world.Mochi plays a central role during the Japanese New Year …
Summary One of Japan’s most traditional foods, mochi is now widely eaten all around the world.Mochi plays a central role during the Japanese New Year …
Usuyaki tamago, or “thin cooked egg”, is a very thin egg crepe. You can use usuyaki tamago to wrap sushi rice, like hamaguri zushi or chakin …
Many people living outside of Japan associate the word sushi to raw fish. That’s not entirely off the mark, as raw fish is a common …
Dashi shoyu is a versatile, umami-rich and slightly sweeter version of soy sauce. It’s a great umami enhancer for Japanese recipes that don’t already include dashi. …
Tosazu means Tosa-style vinegar (su). Tosa is the old name for what is known today as Kochi prefecture, on the island of Shikoku, Japan. The …
Sanbaizu is a standard sunomono dressing. Sunomono translates as things (mono) of vinegar (su), and is the umbrella term for a range of vinegar-based dishes. Sanbaizu gets …
Japanese people are known for their love of rice. It’s so central to the traditional Japanese meal that the word for cooked rice also means …
Summary Rice is a staple food for half of the world’s population. It grows all over the globe, and the grains from different regions vary …
There are many kinds of dashi, but the most well-known type combines kombu (a type of kelp found mainly in Japan) and katsuobushi (dried shavings of skipjack tuna). The …
Dashi and Washoku Every typical Japanese dish almost always includes dashi. So it’s no exaggeration to say that dashi is the element upon which the …
Japanese-style food Simply put, washoku means Japanese-style (wa) food (shoku). Washoku was inscribed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2013. UNESCO defines it as “a social practice based …