Foods Fred Cherrygarden Has Tried

Flavoring everything from dumplings to mochi, this sweet and salty paste shows another side to edamame.

Japanese cooks riff on American diner food with this rice-and-ketchup omelet.

Meet Japan's first milk soda.

The Japanese soda still comes in a marble-stoppered bottle from the 19th century.

These exquisite dried persimmons are massaged for weeks.

Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.

Fresh fruit is the main feature of this sweet sandwich.

It's a whirlpool, it's an emoji, it's a fishcake!

This Okinawan specialty resembles a Japanese take on Taco Bell.

These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.

The toxic pufferfish steals hearts, despite its ability to stop them.

These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.

Some fish can dance.