When the Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937, food shortages started and sake rice was restricted, which reduced the volume of sake produced year-by-y...

By Ryuji Takahashi “All Nippon Product Fair,” titled traveling through Japan in three days, was organized by the Central Federation of Societies of Co...

By Ryuji Takahashi The state of emergency is now lifted nationwide, with sake and food events held in various regions. Meanwhile, “Omi City’s Deliciou...

By Aya Ota Characteristics of New York City are strongly reflected upon old brick buildings and graffiti on the walls of the Lower East Side. In this ...

By Keiko Fukuda Red Rock opened in August of 2017 in Torrance, a suburb of Los Angeles, with the Slice Beef Don from Kobe as their signature dish. A r...

Welcome to Part 2 of my 4-part series on "Thai Kitchen Alternatives"! I hope you are enjoying reading these as much as I did eating, photographing, and writing about them. Today I will cover Yum Neuh Beef Salad. Please don't quote me that I have the name correct - I was calling it 'beef salad' while I ate it (how North...

If you go all of the way back to my second post you will see that I love Pad Thai. Particularly Pad Thai from Thai Kitchen. The problem with this is that it means I rarely venture to try new things. Well I recently tried a number of delicious Thai Kitchen dishes that provided both variety in appearance and flavor. This will be...

Yeehaw! I love a good hamburger. So when one of my favorite local brew pub, Bellevue Brewing Company, makes some menu changes and finally offers a hamburger, I get a little excited. It's always odd visiting a brew pub with such delicious beers and not ordering one, but as it was lunch time - I did the responsible thin...