The other day I went to Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Herb Garden (Tokyo-to yakuyo shokubutu-en). It is a medical herb garden for education and experiments purpose, and thus the real medicinal herbs as well as dangerous plants are planted. No…

I have heard that Japanese furikake is now booming overseas. Furikake is a dry Japanese condiment sprinkled on top of cooked rice and so on, according to Wikipedia. Small packaged furikake is useful for boxed lunch. We usually eat boiled r…