Then, the crackers slowly began to gain popularity in Japanese cuisine. The name "senbei" first appeared shortly after in documents around 737, and the Japanese rice cracker was born. The original ...

sugar, glucose, soy sauce powder, salt, and a key differentiator, monosodium glutamate (MSG). The MSG is there to really punch up the savoriness of the cracker in the Japanese product, and that's ...

Lekh Raj Juneja is not your average rice cracker company CEO. Born in India, he came to Japan to study fermentation science and ended up leading a Japanese pharmaceutical firm. Last year he was ...