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Loading ...The capital of the Umamisphere, Tokyo is a cluttered jungle of JUNK. Yoko reports.
After four years in Tokyo, Yoko recently relocated to the Bay Area. She loves dips, dashi and deals.
What is Umami? Ponder the oyster. Tom yum. Carne asada. All umami. Don't try to define it! Just surrender to the addiction; savor the flavor implosion.
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Tokyo JUNKtion
July 27, 2010
Tokyo JUNKtion: Corpse Candy
It’s funny how when you mention Japan and food in the same sentence, there only seems to be two options. You can take the fabulous gourmet-cheering, sushi-adoring, heavenly-graced and experimenting Michelin-guided way. Or, you can choose the back alley into the world of eyeball-abusing, crazed up, disgustingly weird nastiness that
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July 13, 2010
Tokyo JUNKtion in New York
My friend Futoshi came back from Japan and brought some of the newest and weirdest junk food from the motherland.
In recent months, the most popular food item in Japan is apparently the edible chill-infused oil or 食べる辣油. I saw articles about it in newspapers everywhere– Japan’s major condiment brand Momoya, came out
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January 8, 2010
Tokyo JUNKtion: Sasagin (Yoyogi-Uehara)
I have five more days in Tokyo. I am filling up on soba, genmai cereal and tan-tan men every opportunity I get. My dad always said, “Japan will always be around, America will always be around.” So
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December 24, 2009
Tokyo JUNKtion: Usaya
Shimokitazawa is hands down my favorite part of Tokyo. It’s teeming with youth and the elderly, shopping for knick knacks in a part of Tokyo that has no high-rise buildings — preserving a quaintness that is absent in the major hubs of the city like Shibuya
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December 6, 2009
Tokyo JUNKtion: Green Tea Umeshu
One of my favorite drinks I discovered since living in Tokyo is Kishu Ryokucha Umeshu (Green Tea Plum Liquor). I am a sucker for green tea anything, and when I discovered that there was a drink that fused green tea with one
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December 4, 2009
Tokyo JUNKtion: Ichimaru Unagi Bone
I went to visit my dad’s grave yesterday and on my way there, we had to transfer trains at an adorable little station, Surugaoyama in Yamanashi Prefecture, at the foot of Mt. Fuji.
At the kiosk, I spotted a snack named “Unagi Bone” made by
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November 10, 2009
Tokyo JUNKtion: Preparing Salmon Seminal Fluid
I bought a sac of shirako at my local supermarket for 90 yen (85 cents). I never knew that shirako was so cheap since I had never had the balls to prepare it until now.
November 5, 2009
Tokyo JUNKtion: ChocoBari Love
My new favorite ice-cream product is Chocobari. The closest translation for the Japanese word “bari” in English is the onomatopoeia “crunch.”
I first knew of Chocobari in the summer months when they were running ads for it on TV. I couldn’t
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October 31, 2009
Tokyo JUNKtion: “Here’s LOOKing at you!”
My husband and I took a stroll around Tsukijishijo (Tsukuji Fish Market) yesterday after running an errand in Ginza. I used to work near Tsukiji and never had the privilege of spending a day-off there. It was the same Tsukiji I went
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October 23, 2009
Tokyo JUNKtion: Caramel Pudding Kit Kat
After trying two Kit Kat flavors available in Japan with gag-inducing colors: light aqua for the Ramune Kit Kat and salmony orange for the Mango Pudding Kit Kat, I was seriously relieved to see that the Caramel Pudding
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