Spring has come and cherry blossoms are blooming again! Once a flower comes out, the cherries will bloom in a week! The Japanese eat cherry flowers. That does not mean we pick it out and nibble it while taking a walk under cherry trees. As…

We have various types of noodles in Japan, such as soba, udon, somen (very thin white noodle), ramen (Chinese noodle) and so on. A traditional soba restaurant in Tokyo. Soba is made from buckwheat and brown to white colored thin noodle, wh…