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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

According to Japanese media, 90% of those rushed to hospital from choking on their new year's dish are people aged 65 or older. Chew, chew, chew. If that's not possible, the rice cakes need to be ...

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 ...

What do you eat in the kitchen while standing up? Kimchi right out of the jar, and my favorite snack is arare (Japanese rice crackers). Best bang-for-the-buck food trip? Singapore. The street food ...

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 ...

(The cups are modeled after the gō, which is a traditional Japanese unit of measurement for a single serving of rice or a cup of sake.) I also soaked and swished each batch of dried rice grains ...

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 ...

Curried edamame, gyōza, and more at Mimi’s Chūka Diner. / Photo by Rachel Leah Blumenthal ...