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07 Feb 2017
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Yonsei Canadian TV personality, Lauren Toyota, talks achieving her lifelong dream and moving on to bigger and better things. As well, she shares her vegan yakisoba recipe. Photo courtesy: Penelope PR. Toyota had been working at her dream job, as a host on MuchMusic, a Canadian music and entertainment...
Read more → 01 Sep 2016
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
The ramen burger, which replaces hamburger buns with fried ramen noodles, is one of the newest food crazes to join the Canadian National Exhibition's line-up of crazy food fare. Photo credit: Kelly Fleck. This year, the CNE welcomed Yatai Japanese Street Food to its food building, a concoction...
Read more → 19 Jul 2016
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
The Ninja Bowl (regular $10.95 and large size $12.95) is packed with salmon, edamame, green onions, wasabi peas, and spicy mayo, but beware the size of the bowl. Photo by: Diana Duong The Poké Bowl is the latest food trend hitting Toronto's local foodies and it has nothing to do with the exceptionally...
Read more → 11 Apr 2016
Posted by Asha Walker 
Abokichi sells a variety of onigiri including: chili and kelp and pickled ginger as well as okazu (a condiment sesame oil, miso paste, fried garlic and onion, and spices). Photo by: Asha Walker "It’s like the Japanese equivalent of a sandwich. It’s something you would eat from lunch, a causal...
Read more → 19 Nov 2015
Posted by Hiroki Kitani 
A catfish could be the saviour of Japan's eel industry. Photo courtesy: Pixabay Associate professor Masahiko Ariji has developed a catfish that has the same taste as an eel in the wake of it being added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources's Red List of Threatened...
Read more → 22 Oct 2015
Posted by Hiroki Kitani 
McDonald’s Japan will start serving three new ¥200 burgers and discontinue the Hiru Mac, or Lunch Mac meal, in late October. Photo courtesy: WMC With several year-on-year losses under their ever-shrinking belt, the fast food giant in Japan is making a bid to get more customers into their locations...
Read more → 19 Jun 2015
Posted by nikkeivoice 
— Recipe and Photo Contributed by Tosh Kikuta — In this recipe, the meat is infused with flavour from garlic, ginger and sugar. The vegetables, bean sprouts and mein noodles are crunchy and tasty. It's the cooking method that makes the difference. Cook quickly, use high heat, 'lift' the mixture...
Read more → 22 Apr 2015
Posted by Risa Noguchi 
An image taken of the outside of Taco Bell's first location in Shibuya district in Tokyo. Photo courtesy: Taco Bell Japan's Instagram profile In the 1980s, Taco Bell, which serves Mexican-inspire fast food, opened locations in Japan, but failed to stay open mostly due to additives discovered in its food....
Read more → 20 Apr 2015
Posted by Yuichi Hibi 
Horses are quickly becoming a hot export for Canadian farmers, but the way they are shipping is sending a chill down the spine of Canadian activists. Photo by: Richard Bartz In Italy, horse meat is prepared as horse meat sausage. In France, horse meat fondue is a common way to enjoy the free-range...
Read more → 02 Apr 2015
Posted by Jun Kobayashi 
Light, tasty, and cheese, Uncle Tetsu makes a mean cheese cake for Torotonians. Photos and Words by: Jun Kobayashi and Ai Nagaoka Opening its door on March 18, this spring time opening is now just one of three large Japanese chains that have opened in the city, but Uncle Tetsu is decidedly on the more...
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