About food in Japan

Coriander lovers!?

Reuters reported increasing number of coriander lovers in Japan and the first restaurant  in Japan, specialized in coriander menu.

The green harb is known also as phakchi, its Thail name and many Japanese hate the unique strong flavour and smell.  As increase of  restaurants focus on South-East Asian dishes,  phakchi  lovers increased in Japan as per the article.

One of Japanese phakchi lovers  opened  a community website to exchange information and to express their passion. The number of the member amounts over 500 in Japan. Then the site owner started to own a restaurant specialized in the harb, called Paxi House. Paxi represents of course Phakchi and also peace in Latin word, "pax."

Did I tried the restauran?
No and I am not sure if I am going in the future, even though I do NOT hate it.

Reuters' article
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUST298993220080229

Restaurant Paxi House website
http://paxihouse.com/tokyo/

FOOD Japan network(FJN)

FOOD Japan network(FJN) was launched in Tokyo on 14^th February 2008 by people from agriculture and food-service industries and businessmen who have deep insight into food and cooking.

The organization aims at …

• Vitalization of local regions in Japan throgh fooding and its supporters; agriculture, forestry, fishing industries

• Promotion of Japanese food culture and community

 
And its three main activities are…

• Introducing promotion activities about food and agricuture

• Bridging agriculture producers and cookers

• Conducting marketing research about food culture, consumer trends

The　organization's name "FOOD" represents not only the English word "food" but also a Japanese word "fudo(climate)."　

So far, the website is Japanese only.

http://www.food-japan.jp