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In Japan, if you have a jones for a snack, you’re covered. The huge amount of street food and vendors alike ensure you need not walk four blocks without something to eat in between. Thanks to anime, Westerners are introduced to a wide variety of these intriguing street foods. Okonomiyaki turns up in Tsubasa, takoyaki [...]
Thanks to sushi bars, Americans are becoming more familiar with a few Japanese cuisine options and foodstuffs. But there’s more to Japanese food than sushi, tempura and miso, so very much more. Yet, even with sushi as a primer, Japanese food still emits an aura of simplicity and elegance; which simultaneously fascinates [...]
We thought we’d try something a little different with today’s Japanese recipe. We figured that maybe some of you would like to see what goes into actually making a recipe instead of just reading about it. So David got behind the camera and I got in front of the stove and together we shot [...]
Anime is very inspiring. There are concepts that inspire, characters who inspire, and feats which inspire. And to all you naysayers who dismiss this claim off hand, think of it this way; anime characters do things we wish we either:
A.) Had the strength and abilities to do ourselves.
B.) Had the willpower to do ourselves.
Why [...]
From the folks who brought you Tamagogani and Yaki Aji comes, Kozakanani! They’re dried, sugared and looking you straight in the eye from their dissected sockets. Yes, Kozakanani is a melange of dried and candied marine life preserved for your eating pleasure!
Delivered to your mouth in Takuma Shokuhin’s uninspiring but promissory packaging, [...]
When I first started down my Japanese snack journey, many things were new, strange, and often times, frightening. Fish snacks skewered on sticks and lathered in soy and sake can look pretty daunting to an average Jane. All the Japanese words on the packaging, while written in romanji, are still a mystery to the [...]
“Looks can be deceiving†is an old axiom that should never, ever be ignored, especially when dealing with food. If we all judged food by appearance, we’d never eat okonomiyaki, sushi, sashimi, lychees, ect., and we’d be poorer for the loss. It does help, however, that the food actually look like food in [...]
Have you ever seen food move on it’s own? Rachel and I have…when she made a lovely meal of okonomiyaki the other day.
One of the interesting things about okonomiyaki is that it initially seems like something you’d see in an anime series…when completed, it moves! Rachel took a video right before it was ready to [...]
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