Tsukimi, the season of moon viewing, starts next week in Japan. Learn more about this day’s origins, how to make Tsukimi Dumplings, and why the rabbit in the moon is pounding a rice cake.
Melonpan, the sweet baked good that delights people across East Asia, was the creation of one Armenian man living in the diaspora in Japan. This is his – and his diaspora’s – story.
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