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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.

Japan
(culture • mottainai • rice • waste)

Rice, rice baby! Strains of Japanese rice get turned into cute anime girls on new packaging

Casey Baseel
Oct 27, 2015

Japan likes to think of the food it produces as being the highest-quality in the world, and that goes double for rice. As such, many bags of domestically grown rice are decorated with iconic Japanese imagery, such as a crane, the rising sun, or Mt. Fuji.

But in today’s modern age, there’s no surer visual shorthand for Japan than cute anime girls, which is exactly what you’ll find on these bags of rice from Yamagata Prefecture.

Japan
(anime • food • rice • Yamagata)

Are Japanese rice cookers really better than Chinese ones? We test it out and get some surprises

Scott Wilson
Sep 22, 2015

Whether rightfully or not, Chinese products are much maligned for their supposed lack of quality. Even the Chinese people themselves are often critical of their own country’s products, criticizing everything from Chinese news to rice cookers.

But are they really that bad? Our Japanese reporter Meg recently went on a trip to China and brought back a Chinese rice cooker to test it out. She had a couple of surprises along the way, involving everything from getting the rice cooker to even work, to the taste of the final product, so read on to see how it all turned out!

China, Japan
(cooking • food • Meg • rice • rice cookers • taste test)

An extremely simple trick to spice up plain rice for a refreshing, citrusy summer treat

Krista Rogers
Aug 10, 2015

Recently, our Japanese reporter Aya Ayabe went out to an izakaya [Japanese pub] and finished her revelries with an order of sudachi rice, sudachi being a type of sour Japanese citrus fruit. The slightly bitter flavor really hit the spot in the midst of the nighttime summer heat, and it got her thinking: “What would happen if I cooked rice with some ponzu sauce [a citrus-based sauce which mixes sudachi with other citrus fruits and soy sauce]?” Still curious, the next day she tried making a batch for herself, and the results were apparently quite epic: “This is the most exciting thing that’s happened to me all summer! I’ll never forget this day as long as I live.”

In any case, Ayabe would like to share her extremely simple recipe for creating ponzu rice with you–a delightfully refreshing treat for the dog days of summer which can be enjoyed either hot or cold.