Meats & Animal Products
Tuna Eye
Japanese pubs serve the delicacy sautéed, braised, or in a cocktail known as “tuna’s tears.”
Foods I want to try
Foods this traveler wants to try.
Meats & Animal Products
Japanese pubs serve the delicacy sautéed, braised, or in a cocktail known as “tuna’s tears.”
Prepared Foods
This Okinawan specialty resembles a Japanese take on Taco Bell.
Fruits & Vegetables
These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.
Gastro
Orchardists use sticky stencils and the power of the sun to turn apples into art.
Ingredients & Condiments
Flavoring everything from dumplings to mochi, this sweet and salty paste shows another side to edamame.
Drinks
The Japanese soda still comes in a marble-stoppered bottle from the 19th century.
Prepared Foods
Japanese cooks riff on American diner food with this rice-and-ketchup omelet.
Prepared Foods
Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.
Prepared Foods
Proof that dumplings and chicken wings are not mutually exclusive categories.
Sweets
Fresh fruit is the main feature of this sweet sandwich.
Prepared Foods
Catch these floating noodles before they flow by.
Sweets
These Japanese sweets demonstrate the ephemeral beauty of the seasons.
Sweets
This pancake pays tribute to one of Japan's favorite fish.
Gastro
A ritual that showcases the beauty of the present moment.
Sweets
Many spoons are needed to demolish one of these ice cream-stuffed bread loaves.
Sweets
The beautiful dessert evaporates in 20 minutes.