What is Umami? Ponder the oyster. A martini. Tom yum. Carne asada. Fleur de sel. All umami. Don't try to define it! Just surrender to the addiction; savor the flavor implosion.
kayoko: Eric- you’ll need to free up a few belt notches, for sure. So jealous!
kayoko: HOORAY FOR LANCASTER BUTTER! Don’t know what the Amish do, but they make the BEST BUTTER EVER.
Eric: I’m very concerned for my heart health when I move to NOLA next year.
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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
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 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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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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October 6, 2009
I did the Lost in Translation thing for the first time and went to the Park Hyatt’s New York Grill. I suppose that after living in Tokyo for four years, it was about time. And given
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October 3, 2009
Din Tai Fung was the site of the first Umamiventure outside the United States. On September 27, for Sunday lunch, six hungry Tokyoites and a visitor piled into the busy Din Tai Fung branch on the 12th floor of Shinjuku’s Takashimaya
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October 2, 2009
It’s so hard not being tempted by the Japanese advertising machine. When this monster from a distant shore shifts up its gears, there is no mercy for your soul – or belly. Paired up with a genuine American product like the donut, a
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September 26, 2009
Anders (fellow UMAMIMART writer), Rene and I went to Pinafore, a maid cafe in Tokyo, last Sunday. Here’s the report.
ANDERS:It’s funny how you as a foreign tourist constantly walk around in
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