Walk anywhere in George Town, the UNESCO-inscribed capital of Penang Island and State, and you’ll see gentrification has not ...

2025 was the year of matcha. It was everywhere. In cafés, kitchens, reels and recipe notebooks. Green, grassy, slightly bitter and suddenly non-negotiable. It did not arrive with fireworks or a loud ...

And if you think that the shift has happened overnight, you need to understand that a combination of social media visibility, growing wellness consciousness, and experiential café culture has actually ...

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This creamy matcha Basque cheesecake comes together with just a few simple steps: whisk your matcha until smooth, blend it with heavy cream, whip up a velvety cream cheese base, and bake until ...

A couple of years ago, Pokémon introduced a new monster: Poltchageist, a “Grass/Ghost type” with special abilities in “hospitality” and being “heatproof.” It is wily and homicidal; it is also matcha.

The kit targets those who subscribe to the matcha craze in more ritualistic ways than those simply ordering the aesthetic strawberry matcha lattes with cold foam tops. It’s for those of us who ...

So many Americans start their day with a cup (or two) of coffee. Yet as popular as Java is in the U.S., other parts of the world tend to favor other sources of caffeine. Matcha, for example, which ...

On track to potentially square off in the Toray Pan Pacific Open final in Tokyo, Elena Rybakina and Ekaterina Alexandrova took some time to sample Japanese Kit Kats and rank them from most delicious ...

The cocktail brings umami to happy hour. Prairie Rose is Food & Wine's senior drinks editor. A trained sommelier, cocktail book author, and wine and spirits educator, in addition to Food & Wine she is ...

The health benefits of matcha are vast—and have been celebrated for quite a long time. Though the green-hued drink has been gaining significant attention lately. But I’ll admit, I haven’t exactly ...

Matcha is booming globally, but Western commercialization is blurring cultural lines, raising questions about authenticity and sustainability. Unsplash+ The majority of the Western matcha branding is ...