Dinner with artist Shintaro Ajioka at the handmade soba restaurant "Soba-ya Omori"

Nestled in the residential area of Nakajima is the handmade soba noodle shop "Soba-ya Omori." Through the noren (curtain), you can still see the unchanging smiles of the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Omori. The shop is closed two days a week, Monday and Tuesday, as the busy Mr. and Mrs. Omori travel all over Japan serving as soba apprentices (lol), attending soba competitions and meetings...

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In season! Fresh! How to parboil freshly harvested bamboo shoots and recipes for a bamboo shoot-filled meal.

Speaking of seasonal delicacies, bamboo shoots are a prime example of spring flavors in April. The Japanese word for bamboo shoot (takenoko) is written with the radical for bamboo and the character for "season" (旬). It truly is one of those ingredients that you enjoy in season. However, preparing bamboo shoots involves a somewhat troublesome step: pre-boiling them to remove the bitterness. This time, we'll explain how to do that pre-boiling to remove the bitterness...

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