Today’s unique Japanese spaghetti is yuzu-kosho flavored peperoncino!!!   Peperoncino is pasta flavored with minced garlic, olive oil, and hot pepper flakes (dried red chili peppers). It’s commonly eaten…

  Mentaiko Sauce   Today’s unique Japanese spaghetti sauce is mentaiko or tarako!!!   They are seasoned fish (pollock) roe, commonly eaten with rice. Mentaiko or tarako spaghetti are very…

  Just like the Japanese pizza I introduced before, there are unique spaghetti sauce in Japan!!   The one shown in the picture is “ume-shiso” flavored spaghetti (the right one)….

  Konnyaku is Japanese traditional food made of konnyaku potato. The texture of konnyaku is like hard jelly. It smells but there is not much taste. The store bought ones…

Natto is fermented soybeans. It’s very very sticky and has strong smell, typically eaten for breakfast in Japan. It’s a Japanese traditional food; it’s said that the history dates back…

In Japan, people like to soak in hot bath everyday. It’s common to take bath at night to ease a tired body after working. For Japanese people, bath salts are…

  A gan-ban-yoku is a hot stone spa. It’s a bath towel sized stone slab made of granite or silica, and slab is commonly embedded into a hard floor.  …

くら寿司・回転寿司 revolving sushi Originally uploaded by pict_u_re As you know already, we Japanese love sushi very very much! Usually, sushi is expensive at traditional restaurants but Kaiten-zushi (sushi-go-round) restaurants serve…