Mirin is a Japanese cooking wine usually featured in teriyaki sauce, sushi rice, marinades, stir-fried noodles, and that bowl of Chinese fried rice that always leaves you craving more. A splash of ...

Butadon, which features sliced pork and onions, is a quick donburi (rice bowl) to make ... buy pre-sliced pork – the kind for Japanese barbecue, not the thinly sliced meat for shabu-shabu ...

Igarashi’s mother would often cook her “chuka-don,” or a Chinese-style rice bowl dish, while working in the kitchen. She would casually hand it over, and Igarashi would eat it at a corner ...