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Heart/body-warming anime video is a beautiful love letter to family and miso soup【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 22, 2026
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Based-on-true-story shows how woman and her grandmother stay close even when they’re far apart.

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• (anime • food • manga • Marukome • Miso • miso soup • moving • touching • video)

Nagoya’s dark-red miso has continued to capture tastebuds for generations

• Elliot Hale
  Dec 31, 2025

One taste and lighter varieties may never be enough for you again.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • akamiso • culture • Elliot Hale • fermented soybeans • hatcho miso • history • Ichibiki • local cuisine • local food • mamemiso • Miso • miso soup • Nagoya • Okazaki • red miso • regional food • SNO • soybean miso • Tokai • tradition • Yabaton)

Miso soup as a full meal developed as the next evolution of the traditional side dish

• Master Blaster
  Jun 9, 2025

Soup is good food. It makes a good meal.

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• Japan
• (Japanese food • Miso • miso soup • Misobox • Misovation • Nanohana Miso • nutrition • Yamani Miso)

Which of Japan’s big three beef bowl chains has the best tonjiru pork miso soup?【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 25, 2025

Yoshinoya, Matsuya, and Sukiya battle it out with each other plus a dark horse contender as we go looking for the tastiest pork miso soup.

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• Japan
• (beef bowls • COK • food • gyudon • Katsuya • Matsuya • Miso • miso soup • SNJO • Sukiya • taste test • tonjiru • Yoshinoya)

This Tokyo rice ball takes 20 years to make and 2,000 yen (US$14.30) to buy, but is it worth it?

• SoraNews24
  Oct 1, 2024

Taste-testing Manma’s premium onigiri in Shinjuku.

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• Japan
• (Bongo • COK • expensive • expensive food • food • Manma • Miso • onigiri • rice balls • SNJO • taste test)

KFC releases first-ever spicy miso chicken in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Nov 17, 2023

A very Asian twist on fried chicken.

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• Japan
• (chicken • COK • fast food • food • fried chicken • KFC • KFC Japan • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • Miso)

How much difference does the choice of mold make in fermenting food?

• Master Blaster
  Jul 24, 2023

Two companies, both alike in miso, in fair Okazaki where we lay our scene.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • food • haruka takagi • hatcho miso • Kakukyu • koji • Maruya Hatcho Miso • Miso • Okazaki • soy beans • taste test)

Shizuoka Prefecture is getting its own region-limited burgers featuring a local delicacy

• Dale Roll
  Feb 27, 2023

And of course, they’ll only be around for a limited time!

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• Japan
• (aojiro iso • burgers • COK • fast food • food • katsu • Miso • Mos Burger • Shizuoka)

Easy yet tasty instant miso soup ball recipe will help you clear out your kitchen【SoraKitchen】

• Katie Pask
  Jan 6, 2023

Simple and quick to make, these miso soup balls are not only delicious but will help get rid of any ingredients you have lying around!

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• Japan
• (bonito flakes • cooking • food • instant miso soup • Japanese food • Miso • miso soup • SoraKitchen)

2022’s top stories in food and cooking news 【SoraNews24 Year in Review】

• SoraNews24
  Dec 31, 2022

Let’s take a moment to digest the year’s top stories about what went in our bellies.

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• Japan
• (cooking • food • hot sandwich maker • mikan • Miso • SoraNews24 Year in Review)

Government declaration that ‘miso’ made since 1950s can’t legally be called ‘miso’ sparks debate

• Katie Pask
  Nov 8, 2022

The decision incensed netizens around the country, with 2chan’s founder even getting involved.

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• Japan
• (2channel • Barley miso • culture • Ehime • food • government • law • Miso • miso soup • Uwajima)

Bowl or chopsticks: Which one should you pick up first?

• Oona McGee
  Apr 8, 2022

An introduction to the finer details of Japanese dining etiquette.

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• Japan
• (bowls • chopsticks • eating • etiquette • food • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • Japanese meals • manners • Miso • miso soup • restaurants • sankaku tabe • teishoku)

Miso powder on ice cream? Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it, we say!【Taste test】

• Katie Pask
  Mar 11, 2022

Unusual combination turns out to be unusually delicious!

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• Japan
• (Aichi • COK • crazy • food • ice cream • Miso • SNJO • sweets • taste test • weird)

Should you place miso soup on the right or the left?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 10, 2022

Difference between Tokyo and Osaka kicks off a nationwide debate on Japanese miso placement etiquette.

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• Japan
• (eating • etiquette • food • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • Japanese meals • Miso • miso soup • restaurants • sankaku tabe • teishoku)

So what’s with that thin sheet of white paper on top of Japanese miso?

• Katy Kelly
  Jan 28, 2022

Miso industry giant Marukome unpeels the facts on this peculiar bit of packaging.

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• Japan
• (food • food storage • life hacks • Marukome • Miso)

Instant vs. Restaurant Ramen Project: Ippudo spicy miso tonkotsu battle【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 23, 2021

Can the 7-Eleven version match the majesty of the Hakata original?

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• Japan
• (COK • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Instant vs. Restaurant Ramen Project • Ippudo • Miso • Noodles • P.K. Sanjun • ramen • SNJO • taste test • tonkotsu)

Miso soup capsule toys look good enough to eat, come with recipes to make the real thing!【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 8, 2021

Miniature models give us a big appetite for Japan’s favorite comfort food.

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• Japan
• (capsule toys • COK • cooking • cool • food • food models • gacha toys • gachapon • Miso • miso soup • SNJO)

We try rainbow ramen, the happy noodles people in Japan are going crazy for 【Taste Test】

• Oona McGee
  Dec 11, 2020

Sure it looks beautiful, but can a ramen this colourful actually taste good?

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • curry • Dosanko • food • Miso • Noodles • rainbow • ramen • weird)

Rainbow ramen now being served in Japan to spread happiness through noodles【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 9, 2020

A ramen broth like nothing noodle fans have ever seen or tasted before.

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • curry • food • Miso • Noodles • rainbow • ramen • weird)

A pack of natto (fermented Japanese soybeans) a day keeps the death away according to study

• Master Blaster
  Feb 1, 2020

Terrible news for picky eaters.

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• Japan
• (diet • fermented food • food • health • Japanese food • Miso • National Cancer Center • natto • survey)

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