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Watch a sashimi master chef slice a fish like it’s no big deal【Video】
It’s food. It’s art. It’s delicious. It’s sashimi!
Traditional Japanese cuisine meets Star Wars for New Year’s osechi celebration meals
- Oona McGee
Sep 6, 2016
The tiny details and awesome, original extras take these three-tiered meals out of the traditional world and to a galaxy far, far away.
Cat-paw-shaped Japanese delicacy encourages you to play with your food!【Taste Test】
- Jamie Koide
Aug 24, 2016
You’ll definitely want to give these paw-shaped fish cakes a squish before you bite into them!
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (cat paw • cats • cute • fish cake • Japanese food • kamaboko • Toyama Prefecture)
New Japanese Yakiniku Jet restaurant serves meat by conveyor belt on a high speed lane
- Oona McGee
Aug 22, 2016
Complete with a touch panel ordering system, unusual menu items, and jet take-off sounds, this new restaurant is set to change the way we enjoy grilled meat forever!
- Japan
- (beef • food • grill • grilled meat • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • meat • restaurants • yakiniku)
Are you nuts for noodles? If so, this Ramen Chart is for you!
- Michelle Hughes
Jul 27, 2016
Eating over 100 bowls of ramen in Japan in less than 6 months has turned Fanny Chu into a ramen connoisseur.
- Japan
- (Japanese food • Kickstarter • ramen)
113-year-old soba noodle restaurant closes in Tokyo due to heartbreaking development
- Oona McGee
Jul 11, 2016
The poster explaining the reason for the closure of the family-run business is breaking hearts around the internet.
- Japan
- (Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • Noodles • shops • soba • Tokyo • tradition)
Tamoya Udon in Singapore has something its outlets in Japan don’t
- Joan Coello
Jul 6, 2016
Guess what Singaporeans spice up their udon with!
- Japan, SE Asia
- (differences • Japanese food • Singapore • spices • udon)
Infiltrate your stomach with the new IKEA “ninja dog”
- Corey Gold
Jul 5, 2016
If you think your stomach can handle the element of surprise, you may want to try IKEA’s new ninja hotdog – and, yes, it is very black.
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (bamboo charcoal • black food • crazy food • hot dogs • ikea japan • Japanese food • kuro black • sumi ink)
Show your love of Japanese cuisine with cute range of sushi backpacks
- Oona McGee
Jun 29, 2016
Bring the crazy spirit of Harajuku fashion culture to your wardrobe by adding a giant slice of raw fish to your outfit.
- Japan
- (backpacks • bags • cool • cosplay • cosplayers • cute • Harajuku • Japanese cuisine • Japanese food • LOL • sushi • travel)
Japanese restaurant serves up noodles in stunning ice cube bowls
- Oona McGee
Jun 18, 2016
Sometimes there are restaurants you want to keep a secret all to yourself, and this is definitely one of them.
- Culture, Food & Drink, Japan
- (Arashiyama • ice • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • Kyoto • Noodles • restaurants • soba • summer • udon)
You can now buy your favorite Japanese foods in candle form!【Pics】
- Jamie Koide
May 5, 2016
Curry and gyoza so hot, it burns—literally.
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (candles • cute • food sample • home decor • Japanese food • Village Vanguard)
We try one Japanese shop’s special “penis” noodle bowl
- Jamie Koide
Apr 14, 2016
Slurping noodles has never felt more wrong…
- Japan
- (Japanese food • Kanamara Festival • ramen • restaurants • udon • weird food • wtf)
Not sure if want? London’s English breakfast udon shocks and confuses Japanese Twitter
- Scott Wilson
Mar 27, 2016
When your heart says no, but your stomach says yes!
- Europe
- (breakfast • England • food • food combinations • Japanese food • udon)
100-yen gyoza gadget helps you make delicious dumplings in the blink of an eye
- Jamie Koide
Feb 28, 2016
Fulfill your craving for gyoza dumplings anytime, anywhere with this popular device from Japanese 100 yen store chain Daiso.
- Japan
- (100 yen shops • cooking • Daiso • dumplings • gyoza • Japanese food • potstickers)
Clever cooking hack shows how easy it is to make sushi with an ice cube tray
- Oona McGee
Jan 26, 2016
This is the fastest and easiest way to make sushi we’ve ever seen.
- Japan
- (cooking hack • food • funny • Japanese food • life hack • recipes • sushi)
Eat like a big kid at this Kyoto cafe with their “Kids’ Special” just for grownups!
- Evie Nyan
Jan 20, 2016
Want to eat like a big kid, only with more grace and style? This restaurant in Kyoto offers a “Kids’ Special – for Adults”! Naturally we had to go and scoff—er, try—it for ourselves…
- Japan
- (food • Japanese food • kids lunch • Kyoto • Restaurant • taste test)
Celebrate the coming of spring by feasting on an enormous, $200 luxury Ehomaki roll!
- Kay
Jan 16, 2016
Let’s see what tempting (and pricey) Ehomaki rolls are on offer at Tobu Ikebukuro Department Store this year to celebrate the coming of spring on Setsubun day.
- Japan
- (Ehomaki • Japanese food • setsubun • spring • sushi roll • traditional)
Santa sushi spotted in Japan, is here to deliver sackloads of deliciousness
- Oona McGee
Dec 22, 2015
Why celebrate Christmas with a turkey when you can have Santa sushi?
Don’t drink alone! Nine Japanese snacks to accompany sake that you’ve probably never tried
- Scott Wilson
Dec 20, 2015
Step up your sake game and flavor by trying some of these with your next bottle.
- Japan
- (alcohol • food • Japanese food • japanese snacks • sake • snack foods)
Adventures in Gyudon: We order all seven toppings at Japanese beef bowl chain Sukiya
- KK Miller
Dec 18, 2015
Gyudon, or beef bowl, restaurants offer a plethora of toppings to add to your meal and it can be hard to choose just one. So why not choose them all?
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