I am again drifting from the Izakaya theme but this is one of our favorite soup for special occasions. It is almost a cross between porrid...

Nabe 鍋 means "pot". Nabemono is an all inclusive term of any hot pot dish but often the dish itself is called "nabe". ...

I bought chicken wings over the weekend but we did not use them. I marinated them in sake and kept them in the refrigerator so that they ...

This is a very healthy and refreshing small dish which goes well with sake or any drink. Recently,  Dave Perry recommended two Izakaya...

Pork is definitely the most popular meat in Japan, at least, when I was there (especially in my parents' household). Most of the time ...

This is another one of those small nothing dishes which goes so well with sake and goes even better with hot white rice. I mentioned befor...

This may not be post-worthy but I realized this represents a regional way of eating rice peculiar to the "Hokkaido dialect" of J...