You can find abura soba in the vicinities of Takadanobaba and Waseda (in Shinjuku ward). Ignoring the rather sadistic etymology of its name (literally, “parent-child rice bowl”), oyako-don is the ...
SETH: Today on "Signature Dish," we're heading out on a Japanese journey. After a warm and comforting start... MASAKO: In Japan, you have to slurp the udon noodle. SETH: Boy, that is phenomenal.
Rather, she was doing what Japanese cooks had been doing for centuries: adapting to outside influences. Many dishes now thought of as quintessentially Japanese are fusions once considered foreign ...