Japan

Food, wine, beer, spirits and tea from Japan.

Gyoza seems like a complicated appetizer, but with ready-made wonton wrappers, they’re easy to make. Plus, they’re very delicious.

If you have ever wondered how they make that deliciously moist and sticky rice in Japanese restaurants, wonder no longer. It’s easy as picking up some sushi rice and following these instructions.

Dashi is a type of Japanese stock. Dashi is the base for miso soup, and it is used to make broth, Japanese noodle soup and other recipes.

Nori sushi is one of the most popular types of sushi. The rice and filling are rolled in nori, a type of seaweed. The filling can be anything you like - carrot, cucumber, avocado, smoked salmon, raw fish prepared the Japanese way, and more.

Japanese food and cooking evolved influenced mostly by the particular geography the country has. Meat does not make a large contribution to the culinary history; fish, seaweed, rice, and soy do.
Wine did not have the importance in Asia that it always enjoyed in the Western world. It is true that the climate in most of Asia does not encourage wine production but there are some promising areas.