Learn about Japanese home cooking with chef Saito! Featured recipes: (1) Clear Soup with Hamaguri Clams and Egg Balls (2) Cherry Blossom-shaped Crab Rice. 1. Add washed Hamaguri clams to a pot ...

So today is episode two of our special series on "kaiseki," a formal traditional multi-course Japanese meal. So today's clear "osuimono" soup is made with ingredients that come to bloom in spring.

Most recipes also call for vegetables ... sun-dried fish, and other traditional ingredients. Japanese clear soup starts with ...

This traditional Japanese soup includes ... which calls for a dashi-based soup, and Kansai, a miso-based preparation. For his Kanto-style recipe, 2000 F&W Best New Chef Takashi Yagihashi recalled ...