December 30, 2011
As 2011 draws to a close, I am not thinking about the Mayans. Rather, I am trying to decide what I will be eating over the weekend. PRIORITIES, people!
I’ll be working on Saturday evening (apocalypse be damned!), but I’ll have all the accouterments ready to ring in the new year with Johnny and a bowl of toshikoshi
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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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July 14, 2011
PREFACE
Summer Slurp Series, Pt. 1: Nikumiso Udon
Summer Slurp Series, Pt. 2: Hiyashi Chuka (Cold Ramen)
The one (and only) thing that I miss about the disgustingly humid temperatures in Tokyo is the arrival of cold noodle dishes on menus everywhere. During the hot months of June through September,
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June 3, 2010
Cold noodles are one of the best things about the summer. My favorite cold noodles are soba noodles. When it’s hot outside and steaming rice sounds like the last thing I want to do, I can always rely on soba noodles. But there have been more
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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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August 16, 2009
My partner recently went to Niigata-prefecture in Japan for the weekend. He brought back a gift of hegisoba for me.
At first glance, hegisoba looks just like the cheapo 178 yen soba I buy at the local supermarket, but upon closer inspection, there seems to be more grainy specks
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June 9, 2009
You read it right – 88 cents (or yen). I have mastered the art of cheap bastardism, and come up with a meal that could be the favorite for both my taste buds and my wallet. In a city like Tokyo, where you expect
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November 14, 2008
Sorry I have not been posting! I was staying at my aunt’s where i couldn’t get an internet signal this last week.
Just got into Kyoto yesterday- it’s such a vibrant, artful town, full of color and excellent food. The coffee shop culture here is unreal! More on that later. For now, here’s a picture of a small snack I had
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July 29, 2008
If you know me, you won’t be put off by the title, because you will know I am prone to hyperbole and you will know that my hyperbole is usually in jest. In this case, however, I am utterly sincere.
What I didn’t know about Kyoto, a city renowned for its beautiful temples, was that cafe culture is incredibly alive there.
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February 2, 2008
It’s snowing. And it’s going to snow all through the night. It’ll snow through the show I’ll be playing tonight in Asagaya. So I’m staying in until then.
On my stroll back home this morning from Hatagaya, I stopped by the supermarket with a strong urge to make me up a hot bowl of soba.
I bought raw soba noodles, dashi stock
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