Hong Shao Rou, Red-Braised Pork. It is often presented as a Shanghai dish. For someone from Hunan, however, it is…
June/July, high time for an update. A pretty long one, now that everything’s growing. Well, okay, not everything. I had…
A brand called Malebranche? In Kyoto, Japan? What is that even supposed to mean?
You hear of Tsukiji, you hear of the fish market and the tuna auction there. Famous as these are, it…
In what has become the last finished episode of the CNN series Parts Unknown with Anthony Bourdain, he joined up…
Spring, nature’s awakening, rising temperatures – and in Japan, the spring mist in the mountains for which Haru Kasumi matcha…
Only Tenju would still be a higher quality. Aside from that, Choan is at the very top of the matcha…
Beginning of May, Zanthoxylum trees flower, time to harvest hana sansho.
The Nodoka matcha from Ippodo Tea Co., named after the Japanese word for “peace” or “serenity,” is a special spring…