Chubu Fukui Japanese Seafood Shellfish & Crab Echizen Gani (越前がに) Date April 13, 2020 Reading Time 7 Mins Read Echizen Gani, or Snow Crabs are in plentiful supply during the season that extends every year from the 6th of…
Chubu Japanese Ramen Toyama Toyama Black Ramen (富山ブラックラーメン) Date April 3, 2020 Reading Time < 1 Min Read You can tell from a glance that the blackness of the water is from soy sauce. You might think this…
Chubu Japanese Noodles Nagano Soba Togakushi Soba (戸隠そば) Date March 20, 2020 Reading Time < 1 Min Read One of the three big name soba noodles comes from Togakushi Village. Uses home made ground buckwheat flour, it is…
Chubu Japanese Noodles Niigata Soba Hegi Soba (へぎそば) Date March 19, 2020 Reading Time 11 Mins Read The main characteristic of hegi soba is the seaweed. The hegi soba noodles are a little more slippery and chewy…
Fish Japanese Seafood Kanagawa Kanto Shirasu (しらす) Date February 12, 2020 Reading Time 2 Mins Read In Japan, whitebait is called shirasu, which is small immature fish. They are less than 2cm in length, typically sardines,…
Chubu Japanese Noodles Udon Yamanashi Yoshida Udon (吉田うどん) Date January 25, 2020 Reading Time < 1 Min Read Characterized by its firm and thick flour noodles. Made with a broth of a miso or soy sauce blend and…
Chiba Fish Kanto Namerou (なめろう) Date December 31, 2019 Reading Time 5 Mins Read It is such a satisfying meal that you will lick the plate clean, hence the name namerou which means to…
Japanese Wagyu Miyagi Tohoku Yonezawa Beef (米沢牛) Date December 9, 2019 Reading Time 5 Mins Read “Wagyu” refers only to four varieties, Japanese Black, Japanese Brown, Japanese Hornless, and Japan Shorthorn. It is characterized by high…
Japanese Noodles Kanto Saitama Udon Kumagaya Udon (熊谷うどん) Date December 6, 2019 Reading Time 6 Mins Read Along with Kagawa prefecture, which is known as “Udon Prefecture”, Saitama Prefecture is also the “Udon Kingdom”. The production volume is…
Ibaraki Japanese Ramen Kanto Stamina Ramen (スタミナラーメン) Date December 5, 2019 Reading Time 7 Mins Read Sweet and spicy bowl of thick noodles with liver, cabbage, pumpkin and other variety of vegetables. Healthy ramen that fills…