Japanese

Authentic SHUHARI Matcha Café comes to California

The first and only authentic Japanese green tea café, SHUHARI Matcha Café comes to the heart of Venice backed by Maeda-en USA, a green tea distributor founded by green tea aficionado Taku H. Maeda in 1984, as well as the Cool Japan Fund, a public-private fund that supports the development of overseas demand for Japanese [&hell...

Asian Sweet Potato Noodles, Tofu for the Home Cook

(Gerry Furth-Sides) You’d never know it to look at these delicate, almost ethereal noodles that they are made of yam.  We prepared them in a tomato-based cioppino sauce and dotted them with seafood and fish.  Shirataki in Japanese means “white waterfall.”  They are the House Foods American version of the tr...

Japanese Soba Noodle Class at The Standard in LA

Sonoko Sakai, with her deft movements and snowy white chef coat with bandana head dress  was already  a magnet for passersby looking in on her Soba Noodle Workshop under the strong lobby lights shining down on the lobby The Standard, Downtown LA s in the dreary, rainy Sunday afternoon propelling her unique Soba Noodle works...