Vol. 2 May, 2016

Gluten-Free Moves in the Hotel Industry - Hotel Intercontinental Tokyo Bay

Get Healthier With a "Healthful, Beautiful, and Fresh" Special Buffet. Last summer, the Chef’s Live Kitchen, which is the face of the hotel, staged a buffet fair with the cooperation of the US Grains Council that featured sorghum, a gluten-free ingredient.
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Gluten-Free Moves in the Hotel Industry - The Penninsula Tokyo

"Naturally Peninsula" Strictly Adheres to its Own Principles and Guidelines. The Peninsula, where 80% of occupants are foreigners, accommodates requests from individual diners based on vegetarianism, food allergies, religious restrictions, and other reasons.
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A FOOD WONDERLAND -Explore the different regions of Japan at Foodex Japan 2016-

Foodex Japan is Asia’s largest specialist food and beverage exhibitions that takes place every March at Makuhari Messe. It supports business expansion for the food industry, spreads the latest trends, and brings together buyers from around the world.
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Ramen -Flavor of Japan, Skills of Japan- vol.2

-Exclusive Interview- Ramen, which crossed over to Japan from China, is now enjoying a boom in popularity as a Japanese national food, highly regarded by gourmets around the world.
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Hochoshiki Ceremonial Carving

Wearing an ancient Japanese mass clothes or Heian-era informal noble’s clothes and sitting in front of a large chopping board, he holds the carving knife in the right hand and chopsticks in the left, to carve and arrange ingredients without touching them by hand.
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Regional Foods that Color Japan's Dining Tables

“Washoku” was registered by UNESCO in December 2013 as “Washoku: Traditional dietary cultures of the Japanese”. Differences in climate, topography, history, and traditions between Japan’s regions have generated numerous diverse dietary cultures, and washoku is said to have been highly rated for that “heterogeneity and diversity of food” in each region.
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