Japanese culture has introduced many excellent food products and dishes to America’s culinary palate. Most of us are familiar with surimi (imitation crab and lobster), ramen noodles, the hungry ...

Editor’s note: this story is reprinted from EAT Magazine, featuring the best restaurants in the Vail Valley. EAT is available on magazine racks and in hotel lobbies for free. At Vail’s newest ...

An unsung hero, noodles give texture and substance to a dish. Yet many diners focus on the other ingredients in the bowl, whether it’s the flavors of the wontons (pork and shrimp dumplings) in a ...

Japanese cherry blossom shrimp are blush-pink when raw. But the miniature crustaceans, known in Japan as sakura ebi, turn a vivid crimson when sun-dried, which intensifies their briny, umami-rich ...

This noodle soup combines pork fat, lots of briny seafood and a nice handful of gochugaru (red pepper powder). You’ll be shocked by how easy it is to make a large pot of the broth, which keeps well in ...

Noodles aren't a first date food. Spices and scallions lodge between teeth and slippery wontons splash with abandon, making for a graceless mess. Still, is there anything better than curling up with a ...

Reader Bites celebrates dishes, drinks, and atmospheres from the Chicagoland food scene. Explore all of our favorites at chicagoreader.com/food/reader-bites. How good ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Plate up Here’s a thing we don’t really do in Australia, or any of the Western world: cold noodles.

Unpopular opinion: Japan is basically the Italy of Asia — amazing food, sure, but sometimes a bit… bland (at least for my spice-loving palate). Now, before you grab the pitchforks, let me clarify: I’m ...

This warm Indonesian salad showcases fresh seafood at its best. You can ask the fishmonger to clean the octopus for you, to save you preparation time. Place the octopus in a heavy-based saucepan and ...

“You’ve never been to Hifumiya before?” bellowed my friend in disbelief. I quietly sucked in some air through my cheeks: one of my involuntary reactions when I don’t know what to say, and I’m trying ...

An unsung hero, noodles give texture and substance to a dish. Yet many diners focus on the other ingredients in the bowl, whether it’s the flavors of the wontons (pork and shrimp dumplings) in a ...