Authentic recipes of homemade meals that are rarely tasted at Japanese restaurants are a subject of interest to many outsiders.

For those who want to know what's cooked daily in the kitchens of ordinary Japanese households and even want to know how to cook them and learn what exotic ingredients are used, a powerful tool has been launched that will cater to their curiosity.

Cookpad, Japan's most popular recipe-sharing website with 20 million monthly unique users, has just launched an English version, with an initial 1,500 selected recipes introduced on the site (en.cookpad.com)