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Iwao

Japanese food blog · Marseille

Iwao's Journal

The house notebook: our articles on ramen, sake and Japanese culture. We tell what happens behind the counter and inside the bowl — to read between two servings.

Dining room of the Iwao Japanese restaurant in Marseille: set tables, open kitchen and red lanterns

The lede

Our notebook of Japanese cooking

We write the way we cook: no detours. Each article starts from a simple question — what a real ramen is, how you eat it, what sets a shoyu broth apart from a miso one — and follows the thread to its answer, sources and gestures included.

From the ramen-ya to sake, from the history of arcade cabinets to table etiquette, this blog gathers everything we love to tell about Japanese food and culture. Here are the topics already on the menu, to pick as you please.

On the menu

The articles

The house notebook, one bowl at a time. Click a card to open the article.

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Lucky daruma having its second eye painted

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