February 3, 2012
Great UM Noodletown: Pizzeria Matsuhisa (Tokyo)
Spaghetti with asari (clams), shirauo (little white fish) and arugula at Pizzeria Matsuhisa in Denenchofu, Tokyo. Someday, I will open a wafu (Japanese-style) pasta shop in Oakland.
Eat Out
February 2, 2012
Great UM Noodletown: Drunken Noodles @ SriPraPhai (NYC)
Drunken noodles at SriPraPhai in Woodside, Queens. From Umamiventure #4 in 2007. The savory hot sweetness of the dish still hovers in my memory.
Photo by Irwin Chen.
February 1, 2012
Great UM Noodletown: Misoya Ramen (Santa Clara)
Happy February, everyone!
Umamimart turns 5 years old this month, and I thought it would be fun to celebrate NOODLES! We’re all fans of noodles here, and there are pages and pages worth of posts, since 2007 (!), dedicated to the almighty noodle on Umamimart.
The column name “Great UM Noodletown” is an homage to
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January 20, 2012
Tokyo Nights: Bikes + Bottles
Photo by Kelly Ishikawa, a San Francisco-based photographer and the co-owner of The Perish Trust.
January 18, 2012
Postcard from Taiwan: Stir It Quickly
*Nahoko Morimoto is a Tokyo-based photographer. Her work has been featured in Brutus and Vogue Japan.
January 16, 2012
ReCPY: Food Report from Japan
Happy New Year! I can’t believe the holiday season passed so quickly, and now we are in 2012. Soon we will be bitching about the hot summer.
I was in Japan for the holidays, and had quite a few good food moments. I am really thankful to iPhone since I can now take pictures anywhere (and pretty decent
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January 4, 2012
Skankynavia: Surprise New Year’s in Stockholm
Five minutes.
That’s litterally how much time I had to decide whether I was going to accept the out of the blue New Year’s Eve dinner party invitation from my friends in Stockholm at 12:30 in the afternoon on Dec 31, 2011. That’s all the time I had including packing my socks/curlers/laptop/night cream, locking up my
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January 3, 2012
Parisian Panini
By Johnny Lopes
Being in Paris for the first time, I wanted to see the city life — the real hustle and bustle. So what better place to witness this chaos than Les Halles? It was jammed with bars for your aperitifs and tabacs for your nicotine fix. But aside from this typical parisian fare,
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December 27, 2011
Danran Dinner (Tokyo)
Danran, a little sushi spot in the Sakurajosui station in Tokyo, is no stranger to Umamimart. Yoko introduced us to the place in 2008, and Tmonkey reported on it again later that year. Yoko took me to Danran for the first time several years ago, and I very much looked forward to
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