This Japanese Sushi Chef Is Experimenting with Cauliflower Rice and It’s Delicious

Chef Masa Shimakawa rejects the notion that sushi is a minimalist preparation, that he simply serves as a middle-man, a broker with a sharp knife, between the ocean and his counter. You see, your average independently wealthy food zealot has come...

Chef-owner Taketoshi Azumi doesn’t pad his omakase with farmers market treasures, vegan derivations, truffle salt or A5 wagyu. His Shin Sushi in Encino is a sushi bar experience stripped to its essence. Azumi directs his energies almost solely...

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The color of the Malaysian-style white coffee that Kenji Tang serves at his Alhambra restaurant Ipoh Kopitiam hews closer to milk chocolate than pure cream. Its taste hints of chocolate too, in the way that lightly roasted coffee can, though a...

A masked chef named Steve Cho tends to a griddle crackling with oil beneath a red pop-up tent just outside a strip mall parking lot. Sausages and hot dogs sizzle alongside jalapeños. Cho stirs corn kernels and cream with a spoon in a shallow pan...

At a tiny sushi counter in this boundless capital's southwest suburbs, nine of us sat silent and alert waiting for Koji Kimura to finish readying his lunchtime service. We whispered our drink orders to the restaurant’s lone server while listening...