Lekh Raj Juneja is not your average rice cracker company CEO. Born in India, he came to Japan to study fermentation science and ended up leading a Japanese pharmaceutical firm. Last year he was ...

Lovers of Japanese snack foods may well know "kaki ... and his wife Saki started making "arare" rice crackers with glutinous rice. At the time, they would stack thinly stretched rice cakes and ...

Then, the crackers slowly began to gain popularity in Japanese cuisine. The name "senbei" first appeared shortly after in ...

A two-story steel-frame building used to manufacture “arare,” “senbei” and other rice crackers burned down in the conflagration. Of the five bodies previously discovered at the scene ...

Butadon, which features sliced pork and onions, is a quick donburi (rice bowl) to make ... buy pre-sliced pork – the kind for Japanese barbecue, not the thinly sliced meat for shabu-shabu ...

Gapao rice is a dish they often made while they were ... they use shiso leaves and soy sauce instead to give it a Japanese twist. Children also love the dish. Gucci Fuufu is a couple of cooking ...

Rice crackers, panda-shaped cookies, and other uniquely Japanese treats will be available at a sampling event at Tanaka Farms Pumpkin Patch on October 26-27 ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

The incentive for their effort is an ongoing nationwide decline in rice consumption. As eating habits diversify, Japanese people are eating less rice. For places like Tome that specialize in the ...

Rice vermicelli are thin, long form noodles made from rice grains (not to be confused with cellophane noodles, made from vegetable starch). Commonly used in Asian soups, salads and stir-fries ...

And now, Fukano Whisky, a rice-based Japanese spirit, received one of the highest points at 2020 Ultimate Spirits Challenge. The 10-year old whisky scored 96 out of 100, which tied with Hibiki ...