I am at the Granada Market, the neighborhood mom-and-pop grocery in West Los Angeles where I get my Japanese staples. The fish counter looks cheerful with roses and dahlias from the owner’s garden in ...

West Bengal Congress chief Somen Mitra, who died on Thursday, will go down in history as a leader who could make friends with rivals with the consummate ease of a political craftsman but failed to ...

In nagashi somen, one of Japan’s most delightful summertime food rites, noodles are sent down a bamboo chute ‘waterslide’ and you must catch your meal with your chopsticks. It’s a sunny July day on a ...

'Nagashi Somen', which is a summer tradition, requires long bamboo, a lot of somen, and even 'a person who sheds somen', so it is difficult to do it alone. The new ' Nagashi Somen Pocket ' from Takara ...

The classic way to eat somen is with a cold soy- and mirin-based dipping sauce, and an assortment of herbs and condiments Japanese call yakumi — ginger, wasabi, chopped scallions, chives, myoga (a ...

Somen noodles flowed in cold water for around 90 minutes down a bamboo chute measuring 4,031.76 meters long, setting a ...

Don’t freak out, but are you having trouble remembering things? Sweet cripes on toast, how many times a day do I lose my cellphone? And names — don’t get me started. My awesome daughter has a friend I ...

KANAZAWA—Close to 900 people suffered from food poisoning after eating at a “nagashi somen” restaurant in Tsubata, Ishikawa Prefecture. Nagashi somen is a practice in which customers use chopsticks to ...

This time last year, Mark Somen, 42, was living in a two-bedroom in Queens with his wife, Yassi, and their three daughters, working long hours as director of operations of Soho House in North America ...