Category Food & Drink

Kobe Beef

Kobe beef is a special grade of beef from a breed of cattle called Wagyu. Wagyu is a breed of…

Kombini Cuisine

The Japanese have taken the concept of the convenience store (“kombini” in Japanese, short for “kom-bini-ensu sutoa”) and refined it…

Ekiben

Japan’s bento, or lunchbox, is famous as a solution to the problem of dining elegantly on the fly. Sold at…

Depachika

Department store food floors are a fun and relatively cheap way to experience Japan’s food culture, and foreign ones as…

Replica Food

On a diet? How’s this sound? An ice cream parfait in a tall, frosty glass with fat scoops of chocolate,…