For this recipe, buy dried udon that’s about the thickness of linguine. The Japanese leek (negi) is smaller than the European leek, which is sometimes called a Welsh onion. Japanese negi are ...

Specifically, soju will not bring out the same depth of flavor in your recipes as sake will. Sake is more comparable to a rice wine, while soju is a distilled liquor with similarities to vodka ...

This Chinese-Italian-Fren­ch-Japanese dish is slightly more complex than my usual recipes. The filling is ... but here we make it with sake rather than white wine. Confused?

I think it will give a bright future for Japanese sake." Mr Ito says that in addition to focusing on quality for the export market, producers are also adjusting their recipes to increase the level ...