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I got this $9 disk of tea, and it’s pretty good. I don’t recall the name, but it’s at a couple of the local Chinese/Viet…

This is a super basic roux-based “curry”. The three ingredients are fat, flour, and curry powder. You can optionally add salt and soy sauce, but…

Someone on FB was asking, so I answered. Futomaki and inari (without complicated fillings), is the OG Japanese American sushi from the early 1900s to…

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Is Shoyu and Soy Sauce the Same? Yes. “Shoyu” is just the Japanese name for “soy sauce”. It’s based on Chinese, “soy yu”, which means…

Takana Recipe If you have a pickle press, it’s easy to make takana with mustard greens (they have them at the Chinese store if you…

This is a list of businesses that sell komochi, traditional plain, non-sugared, round-shaped mochi. This is used in ozoni, toasted and eaten plain, or with…

There was this blog, Brown Kingdom, written by Lonewolf, which documented about old LA Chicano gangs. They had an article about the Macy area, but…

(I really don’t know where to put this, so I’m putting it on this site, which makes some sense, I suppose.) My mom makes umeboshi,…