This common household flavor enhancer is made by fermenting a liquid into wine, and then it goes through a process that ...

From a pufferfish feast with Asia's "super divers" to a secret hangover cure reveal, BBC's Discovering the World's Table sees Nick Kwek journey to his ancestral homeland in Malaysia.

"Part of the charm is the variance from tank to tank," he says. Like a good whiskey drinker, Izumi has built a library of ...

Korean rice wine. "In the 1950s, when Korean companies were banned from making soju out of rice because it was needed to feed people [during the Korean War], companies imported tapioca from ...

Travel reporter Nick Kwek visits Malaysian Borneo to find out how the local community makes a unique Sabahan-style rice wine. Historically, rice wine has been a celebratory drink that comes with ...

What’s key to sake-making, which takes about two months, including fermentation and pressing, are the rice and the water ... amid competition from beer, wine and other modern beverages.

The only recognized master artisan, Kwon is a pharmacist by training who stumbled upon rice-wine making through marriage. "My mother-in-law, she was talented with her hands in cooking and in ...