How to Use a Hot Pot

How to Use a Hot Pot

October 22, 2020

Hot pots and why they rule   In many ways, hot pots exemplify all the best things that food brings to our lives. They’re warming, socially engaging, comforting, nutritious (or, the food inside them is), and, most of all, tasty. While the term “hot pot” often...

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Noodle Essentials

Noodle Essentials

April 14, 2020

Starch Noodles Saifun (Bean Thread) Chinese (cellophane) noodles are made from the starch of green mung beans; extremely thin, translucent when cooked. Used in: stir-fry, soup, salad, other Asian dishes. Dangmyon Korean noodles of sweet potato starch are a bit bigger than cellophane noodles and absorb flavors of other ingredients...

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Meet our Ehime Food Fair Vendors!

Meet our Ehime Food Fair Vendors!

March 12, 2018

We’re excited to welcome back several vendors from Japan’s Ehime Prefecture for another Ehime Food Fair at our Seattle and Bellevue stores!  This year, we have 9 companies traveling from Japan to showcase some of the local specialty products of Ehime Prefecture. Ehime is located on...

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Inarizushi

Inarizushi

August 30, 2017

Inarizushi is a type of sushi, or rice ball, that's made with vinegared sushi rice, stuffed inside seasoned fried tofu skins.  Before they can be stuffed, the fried tofu skins are boiled in dashi stock that’s seasoned with soy sauce and sugar. Boiling them in dashi...

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Konpeito

Konpeito

July 14, 2017

Konpeito are traditional Japanese sugar candies that come in a variety of colors and are characterized by their round bumpy shape, and cute and elegant appearance. You may have seen these colorful candies in the Japanese animated movie “Spirited Away”, or as the inspiration for the star bits...

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Fortune Cookies

Fortune Cookies

January 18, 2017

Fortune cookies, an American invention, were most likely inspired by tsujiura senbei, a Japanese cookie originally from Kyoto. Compared to fortune cookies, there're slightly larger and darker in color. Like fortune cookies, tsujiura senbei contain fortunes, but can sometimes contain small toys or other trinkets. Seattle's Tsue Chong...

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