Specifically, soju will not bring out the same depth of flavor in your recipes as sake will. Sake is more comparable to a rice wine, while soju is a distilled liquor with similarities to vodka ...

For this recipe, buy dried udon that’s about the thickness of linguine. The Japanese leek (negi) is smaller than the European leek, which is sometimes called a Welsh onion. Japanese negi are ...

This Chinese-Italian-Fren­ch-Japanese dish is slightly more complex than my usual recipes. The filling is ... but here we make it with sake rather than white wine. Confused?