We imagined that this would be either amazingly good or excruciatingly bad, and we were right. While tempura has become one of the representative foods of Japanese cuisine, its origins are actually Portuguese. Battered and deep-fried morsels of seafood, meat, and vegetables didn’t become part of the Japanese diet until the cooking style was introduced … Continue reading Japan’s clam chowder tempura is jiggly and crazy, but how does it taste? We find out