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Make potato chips twice as delicious by soaking them in green tea before eating them【SoraKitchen】

Casey Baseel
May 17, 2018
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If it works for white rice, the ochazuke recipe can work for potato chips too!

Japan
(COK • cooking • food • green tea • Koikeya • matcha • ochazuke • Pride Potato • rice • snacks • SNOJ • SoraKitchen)

Rice “raised on fighter jet roars” from Ishikawa Prefecture is sure to break the flavor barrier

Dale Roll
Mar 2, 2018

And it’s all thanks to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s F-15s (and an Ishikawa-based vendor).

Japan
(food • funny • Ishikawa Prefecture • Japan Self-Defense Force • JSDF • rice • weird)

Japanese women’s curling team becomes heroes thanks to talent and charm, wins 100 years of rice

Casey Baseel
Mar 1, 2018

After winning Japan’s first-ever medal in the sport, the five athletes are good on grains for quite a while.

Japan
(2018 Olympics • crazy • curling • Olympics • PyeongChang Olympics • rice • sports • winter olympics)

Fried chicken-flavor rice spread going on sale in Japan to keep your karaage cravings satisfied

Casey Baseel
Jan 29, 2018

Because noting spices up a bowl of plain white rice like the taste of deep-fried bird.
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Japan
(food • fried chicken • furikake • karaage • rice • weird)

Chocolate meets sushi in Kura Sushi’s Valentine’s dessert — the “Tiramisushi”

Kay
Jan 28, 2018

If you think this Valentine’s offering looks like an ordinary dessert, wait until you see what it’s made of!

Japan
(COK • Kura Sushi • revolving sushi • rice • sweets • tiramisu)

Japan’s potato chip-flavor rice topping is set to add some snack-time appeal to plain white rice

Casey Baseel
Jan 23, 2018

But the potato chips that inspired it still have a Japanese twist.

Japan
(COK • food • furikake • potato chips • rice • weird)

Carb-free sushi? Japanese sushi restaurant ditches the rice in its new menu items

Casey Baseel
Aug 30, 2017

Also offers “petite rice” options for those who aren’t ready to forego carbohydrates entirely.

Japan
(food • Kurasushi • ramen • restaurants • revolving sushi • rice • sushi)

Spirited Away No Face soy sauce bottle and rice scoop will bring taste of Ghibli to your kitchen

Casey Baseel
Aug 23, 2017

Iconic character from Hayao Miyazaki anime is ready to terrify and/or charm you at mealtime.

Japan
(anime • COK • cooking • cool • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Hayao Miyazaki • interior • movies • rice • soy sauce • spirited away • Studio Ghibli)

Chocolate to Put on Rice – The crazy condiment from Japan for when white rice is just too plain

Casey Baseel
May 17, 2017

Putting soy sauce on white rice is a major faux pas in Japan, but now there’s a flavorful alternative.

Japan
(chocolate • food • Miso • rice • sweets • weird)

Nissin’s new Bukkomi Meshi is the guilty pleasure of rice plus instant ramen broth

Joan Coello
Mar 16, 2017

Nissin knows what’s in the hearts of carb-lovers way too well.

Japan
(Cup Noodle • food • instant food • Instant Ramen • Nissin • ramen • rice)

This all-rice meal is the dream dinner for carb loading

Jessica
Feb 3, 2017

Can you have too much of a good thing?

Japan
(crazy • food • funny • rice)

New Japanese internet ad features … the 10-second fried rice challenge! 【Video】

Kay
Nov 23, 2016

So, how fast do you think you can stir up a plate of fried rice? This ad tries to do it in 10 seconds!

Japan
(cooking • food • fried rice • funny • instant food • rice)

Customer gets more than expected after ordering the large size at a Japanese restaurant

Oona McGee
Sep 6, 2016

This cautionary tale proves that the Japanese word for “large serving” could result in having to eat a truly mountainous meal.

Japan
(big food • cheap eats • crazy • cuisine • food • fried chicken • Japanese cuisine • karaage • large portions • restaurants • rice)

We try “The Pope’s Rice,” one of the rarest types of Japan’s favorite grain

Casey Baseel
Aug 20, 2016

Hard to find, but heavenly delicious.

Japan
(food • ice cream • Ishikawa • religion • rice • sweets)

Dragon Quest celebrates anniversary with enormous rice paddy art in Gyoda, Japan【Video】

Oona McGee
Jul 29, 2016

The Guinness World record-holding game joins up with the Guinness World record-holding rice paddy to create a Dragon Quest artwork on a massive scale.

Japan
(anime • art • cool • Dragon Quest • gamers • games • gaming • Gyoda • rice • rice field art • rice paddy art • Saitama • video games)

Japanese conveyor belt sushi chain develops white cola made from rice!

Kay
Jul 28, 2016

So, what’s special about this white soda? Well, the main ingredient, for one thing!

Japan
(Cola • Kura Zushi • rice • Shari cola • soda • suhsi)

Godzilla appears in northern Japan as awesome rice paddy art 【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Jul 14, 2016

Ghidora and Rodan must be so jealous right now.

Japan
(art • awesome • beauitful • cool • Godzilla • Godzilla Resurgence • movies • nature • rice • Shin Godzilla)

Japan creates Umeboshi Pickled Plum and Takuan Pickled Radish colas to pair with rice dishes

Oona McGee
May 29, 2016

The unusual new flavours are designed to go down well with traditional Japanese meals.

Food & Drink, Japan
(Coca-Cola • Cola • cool • drinks • pickles • rice • Shizuoka • umeboshi • weird flavors)

This is what happens when you cook rice with coffee in your rice cooker 【Rocket Kitchen】

Krista Rogers
Apr 18, 2016

In the name of science, our caffeine-addicted team of intrepid reporters continue their culinary tradition of trying their taste buds to the limits.

Food & Drink, Japan
(coffee • cooking • experiment • food • rice • rice cooker)

Eat all of your rice! Culture connections with Japan’s favorite food

Audrey Akcasu
Nov 15, 2015

In the past few months the Japanese word mottainai, which conveys a sense of regret over waste, has begun to spread into the Western world, and the concept of mottainai can be seen most clearly in every bowl of rice.