Shizuoka shop serves up some of the best bonito we’ve ever had, and lets you be part of making it.
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Gin no Sara teams up with regional fishery company to give you everything you need to make your own sushi, but how does it taste?
We make a simple dish with the fruit that would make Crayola proud by cooking it with…pork?!
If you don’t have a team of sumo wrestlers to cook chanko nabe for you, will a rice cooker do the job for a one-person hot pot meal?
Today in the SoraKitchen, we attempt to make sukiyaki with zero ingredient cutting and just one button press.
A perfectly cooked single-serving of rice with just this mug and a microwave, no rice cooker needed.
Its mysterious outer coating is not burned but simply incorporates one special ingredient.
Here’s a recipe to make chilled Japanese-style pudding using the transparent soy sauce that’s become a popular souvenir from Japan.
When it’s this easy and this affordable, there’s really never a reason to not be eating warabi mochi.
Adding one surprise ingredient is said to make this classic Western-style Japanese dish pair extra well with white rice.
Keep them in the kitchen or throw them in a bag–these toys also serve as functionally cute souvenirs to bring home.
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