Japan Tea Type Bancha（番茶） Date 7 days ago Reading Time 11 Mins Read Bancha (番茶) is Japan’s everyday green tea. It’s an inexpensive, mild-tasting brew made from more mature leaves, picked later in…
Japanese Sushi Kansai Mie Tekonezushi (てこねずし) Date 1 week ago Reading Time 8 Mins Read Tekonezushi is a traditional regional sushi dish from Mie Prefecture, made with red-fleshed fish marinated in a soy sauce tare…
History Japan Sake History of Sake: From Ancient Rice Fermentation to Modern Nihonshu Date 1 week ago Reading Time 28 Mins Read The history of sake stretches back roughly two thousand years, at least if you use the word broadly for Japanese…
Brewing Japan Sake Chogo (調合): Blending and Adjusting Sake for Consistent Quality Date 1 week ago Reading Time 24 Mins Read Two tanks of sake sit side by side in a storage building. Same rice, same yeast, same recipe, same brewing…
Tea Type Usucha（薄茶） Date 2 weeks ago Reading Time 11 Mins Read Usucha (薄茶), or “thin tea,” is the light, faintly foamy bowl of whisked matcha. It’s what most people picture when…
Tea Type Koicha (濃茶） Date 2 weeks ago Reading Time 11 Mins Read Koicha (濃茶), or “thick tea,” is the dense, syrup-like matcha that hosts prepare and guests share during the formal Japanese…
Chubu Japanese Fruit Nagano Yamanashi Kyoho Grapes (巨峰) Date 2 weeks ago Reading Time < 1 Min Read Kyoho grapes are large, dark purple Japanese grapes. Their juicy, sweet flesh and refreshing acidity make them genuinely hard to…
Chubu Japanese Seafood Toyama Firefly Squid (ホタルイカ) Date 2 weeks ago Reading Time 17 Mins Read Firefly squid, known as hotaru ika (ホタルイカ) in Japanese, is a small bioluminescent squid that Japan treats as a spring…
Japan Tea Type Culinary Matcha Date 2 weeks ago Reading Time 12 Mins Read Culinary Matcha is a commercial term. Sellers use it for matcha they process and price for recipes, not for drinking…
Tea Type Ceremonial Matcha Date 2 weeks ago Reading Time 9 Mins Read Ceremonial Matcha is a commercial term for matcha intended to taste good when whisked with water and enjoyed without milk…
