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Kubota Daifuku Mochi

Kubota Daifuku Mochi

November 18, 2020

Often eaten with tea, daifuku are Japanese sweets made of soft and chewy balls of mochi (steamed rice cakes) that are traditionally filled with a sweet red bean paste called anko or an. These Kubota Melon and Strawberry Daifuku Mochi aren’t filled with red bean past, but fluffy...

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S&B Golden Curry

S&B Golden Curry

November 16, 2020

Curry was first introduced to Japan in the late 1800s by the British. Japanese chefs at the time made changes to the dish to better fit the Japanese palate, and to go better with Japanese short grain rice. Many of the spices used in Western and Indian style curries were...

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Taiwanese Food Week

Taiwanese Food Week

November 10, 2020

This week at Uwajimaya, we’re celebrating Taiwanese Food Week (November 11-17, 2020) featuring specialties from the Pingtung region of Taiwan in partnership with Pingtung Good Foods. Pingtung is located at the southernmost point of Taiwan where the region is gifted with warm sunlight and abundant fields – a combination...

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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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Celebrating our 92nd Anniversary

Celebrating our 92nd Anniversary

October 12, 2020

In 1928 Calvin Coolidge was president, milk cost 35 cents a gallon and Fujimatsu Moriguchi started Uwajimaya in Tacoma, Washington selling handmade fishcakes to Japanese laborers in the Pacific Northwest. Now led by Fujimatsu’s granddaughter, almost a century later Uwajimaya has grown from the back of Moriguchi’s truck...

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We’re Remodeling our Seattle Store

We’re Remodeling our Seattle Store

September 29, 2020

COMING 2020 Exciting changes are coming to Uwajimaya! Starting this fall we will be updating our Seattle store to improve your shopping experience, so things will look a little different around here for a while.  We are committed to providing the same level of service you have come to expect...

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