Great Eastern Sun Trading Company

The unique fragrance and deliciously nutty flavor of Emperor’s Kitchen Organic Toasted Sesame Oil adds a new dimension to stir fries, salad dressings, marinades, sauces, and baked dishes. The labor-intensive traditional process of making our sesame oil results in a fresh toasted flavor and silky texture, with none of the harsh overtones of the chemical processing often used by commercial producers.

By early summer in the Uji district, traditional center of the Japanese tea industry, the tea farmers harvest the larger, older tea leaves and small twigs for Hojicha. They steam this mixture to prevent fermentation, mix it with volcanic sand, and roast it in revolving ovens. The sand, later removed, facilitates slow, even heating. This gives the tea its distinctive smoky or nutty flavor, The result is unparalleled taste and quality, as perfectly balanced as a poem. In order to insure the richest, most authentic flavor, Haiku Roasted Green Tea teabags are always two full grams of 100% Nagata Organic Japanese Hojicha Tea, the finest quality in the world. Try our HAIKU Organic Japanese Hojicha Roasted Green Tea and you will understand why true connoisseurs of Japanese roasted green tea will drink nothing else.

Emperor’s Kitchen Organic Dried Whole Shiitake Mushrooms are grown in Qingyuan County in a remote area of Zhejiang Province to strict Chinese Government Organic Standards. Enjoy the unique umami flavor of shiitake mushrooms in your favorite vegetable stir-fry, sauces, gravies, vegetable stocks for soups and stews and add to your Sunday morning scrambled tofu. We love to add them to our daily Miso Master Miso soup.

The taste of real wasabi is like a warm explosion in your mouth that quickly fades to a lingering slightly sweet aftertaste unlike the fake wasabi substitutes made up of horseradish and mustard. Because it is so difficult to grow, even in Japan only 5% of the sushi shops serve authentic wasabi. Wasabia japonica was known in Japan as “the King of Herbs”, and has the highest level of isoflavones after soybeans. Wasabi produces much of its distinctive pungent odor and taste from complex sulfur compounds that are produced when it is crushed or grated. These compounds, found at a higher concentration in wasabi than in almost any other food, help control many destructive pathogens and give a scientific underpinning to the traditional use of wasabi as an accompaniment to eating raw fish in the Japanese diet.

Several weeks in early spring, farmers in the Uji district, traditional center of the Japanese tea industry, farmers gather the first flush of new buds and leaves for processing into Sencha, the highest grade of Japanese tea for export. The bud and top two leaves are cut at the peak of flavor and quickly pan-fired to halt oxidation of the precious polyphenols. Next the buds and leaves are rolled into tight curls, slowly dried,and immediately packed to seal in the fresh taste and aroma. In order to insure the richest, most authentic green tea flavor, HAIKU teabags are always two full grams of 100% Japanese Organic Sencha Tea, the finest quality in the world.Try our HAIKU Organic Japanese Sencha Green Tea and you will understand why true connoisseurs of Japanese roasted green tea will drink nothing else.

Emperor’s Kitchen Traditional Kuzu is a culinary superfood. Kuzu is traditionally used in Japan and China as a culinary and confectionery thickening starch as well as a valued medicinal remedy. Kuzu’s mild flavor makes it the perfect thickening agent for sauces, gravy, glazes, soups, stews and even cake icings and pudding. You can also use kudzu as a coating for frying your favorite vegetables, fish, tofu or tempeh. In their book, Culinary Treasures of Japan, John and Jan Belleme share a host of natural medicinal remedies from allergies, bronchial asthma and circulatory system issues to migraine headaches and high blood pressure.