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Fun Facts Behind the Pickled Ginger
In Japanese restaurants, you can often see free beni shōga (red pickled ginger strips) placed on the table, and in sushi restaurants, there’s another ginger-based side dish called gari. Why is it called “gari”? It’s not just sushi shops — if you buy sushi in major supermarkets across Japan, it wi...Read more -
How I Make My Go-To Salmon & Avocado Sushi at Home
I’ve always loved that moment in a sushi bar when the chef places a perfect roll in front of you — neat, tight, and fresh. But one rainy weekend, I decided to see if I could pull it off at home. Turns out, it’s way easier than I thought… especially once I had my Yumart Sushi Kit on the counter. ...Read more -
The Story of Matcha Tea
Matcha Tea originated in the Wei and Jin Dynasties of China. Its production method involves picking tender tea leaves in spring, steaming them to blanch, and then making them into cake tea (also known as rolled tea) for preservation. When it’s time to eat, first bake the cake tea over the f...Read more -
Tapioca Pearls Bubble Tea – Cool Off And Quench Thirst
Bubble tea is a type of tea beverage that originated in Taiwan, China and is popular around the world. After adding the Tapioca Pearls to the milk tea, it becomes bubble tea. Bubble tea is a type of “foam black tea” culture in Taiwan, China. Initially, merchants in Taichung mixed bla...Read more -
What Is Wakame: A Guide to Using, and Storing Wakame
Wakame is one of the major types of edible seaweed. This sea vegetable is widely used in Asian dishes, and is most often served in soups and salads, or as a side dish to seafood. Wild harvested in Australian waters, it is usually farmed in Japan and Korea. Most likely the wakame you’d find ...Read more -
How to Make Dumpling Wrapper Pizza？
Dumpling wrappers can be used to make not only dumplings, but also many other delicacies. Today, I would like to recommend a very homely and easy-to-make delicacy – dumpling wrapper pizza. Using dumpling wrappers as the base of the pizza not only reduces the time of kneading the dough, but...Read more -
How To Use The Sushi Bamboo Mat To Make A Perfect Sushi Roll
Delicious sushi is loved and favored by diners all over the world, and we can make delicious sushi at home. When making sushi, the choice of tools is very important, and the most important one is the choice of sushi mat. When choosing a sushi mat, the material and size are the key factors to cons...Read more -
Kelp — A Premium Ingredient From The Ocean
Kelp is a type of brown algae food rich in iodine, calcium, dietary fiber and various minerals. It has the functions of regulating thyroid function, promoting digestion, lowering blood lipids, and antioxidation. Kelp has a crispy and tender texture and can be served as a salad, made into soup or ...Read more -
Nutritional Value of Dried Wakame
Dried wakame is a food obtained by dehydrating fresh wakame. Wakame is a brown algae rich in various nutrients. Drying not only prolongs its shelf life, but also facilitates transportation and storage. It is one of the common forms of seafood processing. After blanching,...Read more -
Daifuku: A Traditional Japanese Dessert Welcomed by the World
In many Japanese dramas and Japanese novels, we often meet a mouth-watering delicacy, “Daifuku”. The name, as it sounds, conjures up images of its chubby, soft and sticky appearance. So what is this much-admired traditional Japanese confectionery all about? Daifuku is o...Read more -
Ice cream: your summer savior
In the blazing sun, the summer heat, when you sweat profusely, dry lips and tongue, if you can eat a mouthful of ice cream, you will feel refreshed at once. But how was this cool and delicious treat invented and produced? The ice cream refrigeration technology that is no...Read more -
The Soul of Japanese Cuisine: Kombu
Kombu is an essential element of Japanese cuisine. It is unobtrusive but ubiquitous, adding a unique flavor to the cuisine. In Japanese culinary culture, “umami” is considered a vital taste experience, mainly due to the clever use of glutamate and nucleotides, and kombu is the natural...Read more