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Browse the tea shelves of a shop in Fukuoka or Saga and you'll often find a bag that looks almost too plain beside the polished gyokuro tins. It holds pale, flat little stems instead of dark, needle-like leaves, and its label carries two...

Open a bowl of miso soup in Tokushima and the seaweed inside may not behave the way you expect. It holds its shape and bites back a little. Locally, that seaweed is often Naruto wakame (鳴門わかめ), a Japanese seaweed specialty from the ...

Walk into an old tea shop in Kyoto and you'll find gyokuro, the shaded tea Japan treats as one of its finest, priced and packed with care. Look a little further along the shelf and there's often a quieter bag nearby. It's full of pale gr...

Most Japanese green teas are judged by their leaves. Kukicha (茎茶) turns that idea around. It's a Japanese green tea made mainly from the stems and leaf stalks of the tea plant, the parts that finishers sort away when they want a neat, ...

Tokyo is one of the world’s great food cities, but its restaurant culture can feel unfamiliar when you visit for the first time. A small ramen counter, a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant, an underground food hall, and a neighborhood izakay...

Hello, food lovers! Today we are talking about a warm, crunchy, and very popular dish from Japan called Kaki Fry (カキフライ). If you visit Japan in the winter, you will see this "yummy" treat on many menus. It is the perfect c...

Tekonezushi is a traditional regional sushi dish from Mie Prefecture, made with red-fleshed fish marinated in a soy sauce tare and folded through vinegared rice. Bonito is the classic choice, though tuna appears often. Shiso, ginger and ...

Firefly squid, known as hotaru ika (ホタルイカ) in Japanese, is a small bioluminescent squid that Japan treats as a spring delicacy. Toyama Bay is the place most closely associated with it, because every spring huge numbers of females ri...

Yokkaichi Tonteki is a Japanese pork steak from Mie Prefecture in central Japan, sautéed with whole garlic cloves and finished in a dark garlic sauce. Locals treat it as a local specialty rather than a restaurant showpiece. The pork arri...

Shikuwasa drink is Okinawa's everyday citrus beverage, made from a small green fruit called Citrus depressa. It tastes sharply sour with a green, faintly bitter edge, so almost nobody drinks it straight. Instead, locals dilute it with co...