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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Loading ...August 25, 2010
I sometimes wonder whether my generation (of 1979) will explode in a green toxic waste cloud when we turn 40.
Raised throughout the 1980’s on a chemical food diet consisting of added preservatives, taste perfumes and E-numbers galore, our bodies have grown up in dirty soil and now there’s no way back (check the
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August 3, 2010
I love food with personality. And I have the feeling it loves me back– especially in Japan.
Working as a character designer, I’m a junkie for Japanese packaging which more than usual sports a happy face, a friendly helper or just an enormous surplus of humour and fun which we boring, sad people
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February 26, 2010
Why do all mothers pack their fridge so much? You might remember Kayoko’s mother’s fridge that took her three posts to dig up, and my mom’s fridge was just as packed. Is it the war they experienced that makes them keep everything, even the tiniest bit?
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January 14, 2010
On New Year’s Eve in Japan, my mama came home with this box. This looks exactly like an Asian cake box, right? I thought, from the shape, this was probably a log cake or something.
Very celebratory color and pattern on the box. Must be something
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January 11, 2010
Osechi is traditional new year’s food, and one of the most significant meals of the year in Japan. Back in the old days, when women were supposed to serve the men in the family, the first three days of the new year was the
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January 7, 2010
Happy New Year everyone! This year’s resolution for me is to try to post more since I’ve been pretty lazy for some time now. I went home last month, and found a couple of interesting items that hasn’t been posted by Yoko in Tokyo JUNKtion.
1.)
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December 4, 2009
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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Will it be shoyu? Miso? Tonkotsu?
大もり= Oomori = Super Size Me?
Side of fried rice? Gyoza? An extra egg? Extra slices of roast pork?
Choose button carefully– there’s no turning back! Drop your yen into the machine and the ticket will print with your order. Take ticket to
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November 13, 2009
Whole squid being hung out to dry, off the side of a major highway in Izu. I love their little feet hanging off the edges. Cute.
November 5, 2009
The cold weather, as Yoko just talked about, could only mean one thing: HOT POT TIME! Look at that thinly sliced, luscious piece of scarlet red cow flesh. How ever so privileged we are.
This is an individual-sized shabu-shabu nabe (hotpot) we got
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