All about mochi!
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 …
Sanbaizu
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 …
How to cook Japanese rice
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 …
Japanese rice, a meal in itself
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 …
How to make your own dashi
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 …
No dashi no life?
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 …
What is Washoku?
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 …