October 18, 2011
By the time you read this, Yoko and I will be in Niigata, Japan, a prefecture three hours north of Tokyo, on the west coast, the side of the Japan Sea. It’s also directly west of Fukushima City, home of the Daiichi Power Plant. We will be visiting a sake brewery, as well as harvesting rice.
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August 31, 2011
My city has experienced the wettest summer in the recorded weather history of Denmark.
Just this morning I woke up to a two hour thunderstorm with the most insane cracks, blitzes and a mustard yellow hazy sky. It felt like some aliens were landing on the planet in giant yellow spaceships. Unfortunately they didn’t, and another
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July 12, 2011
“Are we really doing this?” I asked, uncertainly nibbling on a grilled shiitake mushroom.
Eriko paused before answering. “I know I was talking some pretty ambitious stuff the other night, but I think we should try it,” she replied. “We could end up pulling off something really cool.”
I vividly recall the tipsy conversation that had
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February 9, 2011
The kawaii (= cute) world of Japan is a very positive dimension of happiness, beauty, bunnies, rainbows and ribbons. And not just something that contains characters, but also an aesthetic approach that appeals to your heart, with a rather feminine touch and usually a soft design that makes you go, “Awwwww, that’s so CUUUTE”. Girls
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January 13, 2011
While my husband is away in Tokyo this week, I dig myself deeper everyday into a dark hole of despair and yearning. With emails from him like “I am going to Bar Tender in the day then Sasagin and Saburo in the night,” missing him is eclipsed by
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October 7, 2010
Raw Chicken at Fuku
Fuku in Yoyogi-Uehara was a last-minute discovery I made before my escape from Tokyo.
It was a five-minute walk from my apartment and served yakitori in a style much trendier than Tori-ina. Tori-ina brings in the 40s and 50s crowd, whereas, Fuku is patronized by people
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January 8, 2010
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
Update May 10, 2012: This location has since closed.
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
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October 19, 2009
1.) Chopsticks holder-thingy.
2.) Chopsticks to lay on #1.
3.) Cup for soba broth.
4.) Little container of housemade broth, to pour into #3.
5.) Dish of green onions and wasabi. To be added to #3
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October 16, 2009
I have been going through my hard drive and am finding a shitton of Japan Food pics from my visit last year that I never shared with you. My one-year anniversary of leaving NYC is fast approaching- I
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