At most local Japanese restaurants, rice is rice and soy sauce is soy sauce — but at the new Michi Japanese Cuisine in Napa, it’s a different story. Here, chef Michiyo Hagio serves Koshihikari, a ...

The warm, versatile flavors of this curry can be a weekday comfort or a marquee meal. By Bryan Washington Kare rice is for celebrating, and kare rice is a current for living, but mostly kare rice is ...

A short walk from Sensoji, the oldest temple in Tokyo, sits another aging classic – Onigiri Asakusa Yadoroku. Founded in 1954, it’s believed to be the city’s oldest onigiri (Japanese rice ball) ...

Cathy Chaplin is a former senior editor at Eater LA, a James Beard Award–nominated journalist, and the author of Food Lovers’ Guide to Los Angeles. Onigiri, a Japanese staple of hand-packed rice ...

The new fast-casual concept will feature onigiri, a ubiquitous staple in Japan made from rice and a variety of fillings ...

This summer, I spent a good chunk of time in Osaka, Japan, under the pretense of a research trip, though it was mostly to shut myself up for fifteen seconds, which, more often than not, meant eating ...

To satisfy demand for her hit rice bowls, Perry’s Restaurant’s executive chef Masako Morishita bought two more donabes — traditional Japanese clay pots — to have three in rotation at the Adams Morgan ...

TOKYO >> When a severe rice shortage sent prices skyrocketing in Japan last year, Tokyo restaurant owner Arata Hirano did what had once seemed unthinkable: he switched to an American variety. The ...