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An easy and fresh salad using soba noodles, avocado, walnuts, and a few other ingredients that are readily available at any grocery store.

A step-by-step recipe for making quick-marinade Korean BBQ at home. Marinate in minutes and cook in a grill pan or indoor grill for super flavorful bulgogi.

A step-by-step recipe on making a root beer float with Kannoko Mugi Shochu, a barrel aged barley shochu that's akin to whisky.

A step-by-step guide to making an easy, no-fail simplified Japanese curry with homemade depth of flavor, but only a few ingredients. Requires a slow cooker!

A step-by-step recipe to make Matcha Sesame Tofu, which can be eaten as a sweet dessert or savory side dish, when topped with shoyu and wasabi.

Step-by-step instructions of the easiest, creamiest, and most delicious matcha green tea ice cream you can make at home. No need for an ice cream maker!

A step-by-step recipe on making fluffy steamed rice cooked with Snow crab, enoki and shiitake mushrooms, and kombu. Delicious and full of umami flavors!

Jeon are savory Korean pancakes that are more like eggy omelets. Here's a step by step recipe to make real crab jeon using canned snow crab.

The gyoza machine from Japan is a solid steel uni-tasker that produces at least 10 gyozas per minute – up to 750 pieces per hour!!!

Scroll to the bottom for updated recipe notes and photo! - Kayoko, 6/30/2020Ah, Mexico. We went to Cabo San Lucas over New Year's and had a magical time. We were captivated by the sea breeze... ... the abundantly fresh seafood...

The first time I learned how to make matcha was from my grandmother, Baba-chan, in Tokyo. I was in second grade when she first showed me how to make matcha. I quickly forgot about it when I moved back to California in...

Satisfy your craving for savory with this ultimate umami grilled cheese. Ingredients include Kewpie Mayo, Umami Salt, 4 kinds of cheese, and mushrooms!

A step-by-step recipe for making Karashi mentaiko at home.

yuzu kosho and avocado go so well together, I decided to incorporate yuzu kosho into my new breakfast routine. This is what I came up with: yuzu kosho avoca

A play on the classic French 75 cocktail recipe using yuzu juice, sparkling wine, and umeshu (plum wine) substituting for gin.

We hosted a cocktail making event at Forgery with Plumpjack Wine & Spirits on how to stir the perfect cocktail and when a drink is shaken vs. stirred.

Kanten is a jelly-like substance made from agar agar. It’s completely vegan and gluten free. In this recipe, I used three fresh yuzu to make yuzu kanten.

Don't Call This a Saketini is a take on the traditional Martini, using a dry sake instead of vermouth.

(Disclaimer: I did NOT see any of the shadows when I was taking these photos. Sorry about this. My pics are usually bad, but these are extra bad...) I love coming up with weird fusions. You will be surprised at how cultural...

Many of you are well aware of my noodle addiction. I like all noodles: soba, udon, ramen, linguine, naengmyun, pho, any and all of it. Fried, boiled, in broth. Cold soba is probably the only food that I crave all of the time -- and...