Japanese Umeshu plum wine using the "Hannari" rice shochu from Kyoto. It is nice on the rock, on soda and can be enjoyed anytime a day
Japanese Umeshu plum wine with Yuzu made of rice shochu from Kyoto. This umeshu has a lot of acid and a slightly sweet bitter notion from the Yuzu peel making it a nice aperitif.
From the Japanese outdoor retailer Snow Peak™, check out these super high quality travel chopsticks! These chopsticks made from high grade stainless steel and recycled baseball bats from Japanese baseball teams!
Full Size Chopsticks - Balance is actually pretty good especially compared to Japanese, Chinese and Korean Chopsticks.
Dynamite Roll along with an unknown Tempura.
Vegetarian California Roll along with the famous Caterpillar Roll below.
The Japanese persimmon or Kaki Persimmon, also known as an Oriental persimmon, is an attractive tree known for its ease of care as well as its hardiness. The tree doesn’t need pollination to produce non-astringent fruit nor does it change color during the process of ripening. The Japanese persimmon tree grows in warm climate regions and produces a large number of fruits during the months of October and December.
"The honesuki is Japanese in origin. This knife comes in handy once the big cuts are made – the hacksaw for the bone breakin
A company in Japan, Scentee, has created a gadget that connects to your IPhone that gives users the ability to smell food. The gadget uses replacable catrdidges.
"The iPod made music portable. We want to do that for scent." CEO Tsubouchi
Looking for the perfect holiday gift for the sushi lover in your life? Check out the Rice Cube™! Have a great time making perfect sushi cubes easily with this neat little gizmo!
Have you ever wondered how to make Japanese Pickle Daikon? We stumble upon a blog that specializes in the art of Pickling. One of the articles is on Japanese Daikon.
Daikon is an extremely underrated vegetable. To describe it to those who haven't heard of it, it's pretty much a big, white radish, that resembles a long, white carrot, but you also see some short fat daikons - they are really quite strange looking things.
Takayama is located in the Gifa Prefecture of Japan and is home to the phenomenal Hida beef. Just as Kobe beef is renowned, so is the Hida beef of this region. Legend claims, (and it is quite a recent legend) that the origins of this sensational meat came about when a genetically perfect bull named Yasufuku, produced calves that had this most unbelievable meat. It is said that he sired up to 40,000 calves and thus the origins of Hida beef.