One thing I try to do when visiting each prefecture is to try their 名物 meibutsu (local specialities). In Nagoya, one of these local specialities is ひつまぶし Hitsumabushi (broiled eel)! Ugh, I feel so hungry now looking at this photo! >_< We headed to a pretty famous…
For Mumu’s birthday, I decided to surprise her with a treat to afternoon tea in Tokyo! She had no idea where we were going, and en route to Shangri-La Hotel, she suddenly commented “Do you know if they have high tea in Tokyo? I…
Sometimes, the best finds are those that you come across by sheer coincidence. One such chance encounter is this lovely place called とりかくTorikaku that Fu & I randomly picked out of all the restaurants available to our rumbling stomachs one fine afternoon. “Tori” literally means bird, but when…
January 1 is the Japanese New Year, and while it’s not the first time I’m in Japan during this period, it’s the first time I’m making an effort to celebrate it the Japanese way! TOSHIKOSHI SOBA 年越し蕎麦 Japanese traditionally eat soba (buckwheat noodles) on New…
Gyudon 牛丼 is a Japanese dish consisting of a bowl of rice topped with beef and onion simmered in a mildly sweet sauce flavored with dashi (fish and seaweed stock), soy sauce and mirin (sweet rice wine). If you’re wondering what to eat when…
Alice in Dancing Land is a theme restaurant in Shibuya, Tokyo, inspired by Alice in Wonderland. I previously visited a similar restaurant, Alice in Labyrinth located in Ginza, Tokyo, and produced by the same chain, which you can read about here. As I brought Zhen to…
edit: The position of my favorite oyako-don has been usurped by Torikaku. edit 2: Forget them all. I learned how to cook oyako-don recently and it’s LEGIT AWESOME. You may know what oyako-don is, and may even love this chicken+egg rice bowl (like me!)…