other Asian grocers, local major supermarkets or online stores, but please note that not every store carries a comprehensive range of Japanese products or fresh ingredients. We try to provide the website link if they have one.
Most large general Asian stores are Chinese-focused (e.g. Paristore in France), or Korean-focused (e.g. H-Mart in the U.S.). This means that they only have limited shelf space for Japanese food. Yes, there is a difference between the cuisines!
He leans against a signpost that points to the left at the city of Japanese collaborators and says: "happy peace lands" and at the right to the Chinese military that fought the Japanese. They have been destroyed. The sign points to them and says: "War of Resistance and death." Over the...
In Japan, we time the umeboshi process so that the ume plums reach the end of the salting stage aroundDoyou no ushi no hi(土用の丑の日), which falls on a different day every year, but is always around mid to late July. This date is always marked on Japanese calendars, along with ...
Luckily I don’t have too many questions, being an otaku of all things Japanese and sake being number one on that list of obsessions and being in the bay area adds to the number of sake bars, grocery stores that sell top end sake. ...
One year the old fishermen had a large amount of fish to take to sell at Osaka. They passed the most dangerous waters and when they got to the more quiet waters of Osaka, they all fell asleep. One of the old fishermen had a feeling that the naughty Shibaemon would come out that ...
To be clear, all the food that you’ll find at Japanese stores is perfectly safe to eat, but if you want more information about its origin or where it was processed, then the characters you need to know are 産 and 地, which should appear somewhere on the label. You can tell if the...
We had the pleasure of meeting Aki today and participating in her cooking class with a small group of four. Aki lives in a neighborhood outside Kyoto’s city center, far from the usual tourist spots. First, she took us through a shopping center wit...
All abandoned: Chernobyl / Pripyat, Nara Dreamland, Anti-Zombie Fortress, Japanese Sex Museum - and many, many more! Plus: North Korea Special - 2 trips, 16 days / 14 nights! As seen on CNN...
Every stand would sell the same thing, hozuki, at same price: 2300yen (approx. 20 USD) 在百货公司买便当。 下雨天销量不太会的原因吧,很多便当都在打折。 买了一盒寿司便当。 Bought a bento at the store. As it was raining, meny stores reduced their price. I got “sushi bento” for mysel...