Category Archives: Food & Drink

Official Promotion of Green Tea Features Original Anime Characters

  Located about the center of Japan, Shizuoka Prefecture is a home of Mt. Fuji and green tea, and its coast area has an old hot spring resort city and…

A Few Tricks Make a Boiled Corn More Delicious

Boiled corn is simple but delicious! What if there is a way to make it even more delicious? Do you want to know? Well, this Japanese blogger found the way…

How to Make Easy Sukiyaki with Coke

  Are you familiar with sukiyaki? It is a Japanese dish consisting of thin slices of beef cooked with various vegetables and soy sauce based mixture in a table-top cast-iron…

Unique Voice Café Opens in Shibuya

  According to Japan Anniversary Association, May 8 is the Voice Day. In Shibuya, Tokyo, a unique café themed “voice” opens today and will run till June 9, 2011. Named…

Cup Noodle Rice Sold in a Limited Region in Japan

Last summer, the cup noodle company, Nissin released “Cup Noodle Gohan (rice)” in a limited area in Japan. It is instant rice that tastes like the famous Nissin Cup Noodle….

From the Japanese Kitchen: Daigaku-Imo

  Today’s menu from the Japanese kitchen is “daigaku-imo” which literary means “university potatoes “. It sounds strange, doesn’t it ^^?  There are many stories about this name. “Tokyo university…

Healthy Tofu Cream Pasta Recipe

This is a tofu cream sauce recipe for those who watch their weights.     Ingredients 1 Block Soft Tofu 1/2 Onion 1 Clove Garlic 1/2 tsp Consommé 1 tbs…

How to Make Edamame Dessert “Zunda-mochi”

Zunda-mochi is a traditional dessert of Northeast Japan. It is mochi covered with zunda, which is sweet edamame (green soybeans) paste. Mochi is sticky and chewy rice cake made of…

Delicious and Cheap Eatery in Akihabara, “Kanda Shokudo”

“Kanda Shokudo” is an old diner established fifty years ago in Akihabara, an electric town of Tokyo. The diner has served large portions since the time when the most of…

From the Japanese Kitchen: Yakitori

  As you may know yakitori is Japanese style skewered chicken, and literary means “yaki = grilled” and “tori = chicken”. In many countries, you can find a variety of…

No More Teapots! Tea Strainer for Plastic Bottles “Chattea”

  “Chattea” a tea strainer for plastic bottles has been very popular since it was released in October 2010. The idea “making tea without using teapot” grabbed not only general…

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