OKAYA, Nagano Prefecture--Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi ... of a bubbling soup of steamed rice, water and a rice mold known as koji, and gives it a good mix with a ...

The most popular dish at The Chairman is the steamed flowery crab with aged Shaoxing wine and rice noodles, but the restaurant’s regular customers also love the steamed sticky rice with crabmeat ...