Kaiseki is a much more elaborate multi-course Japanese set menu. The menu follows standard steps, akin to a western menu.…
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I could be forever doomed after the one elusive Japanese breakfast in Tokyo that set an impossible-to-match standard for the rest.…
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Toeps' book starts with Japan. She takes the reader on an imaginary trip to Japan, where everything is different (if you're not Japanese).…
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On the way home from Minamishima, as per our little post-Omakase tradition, we discussed the food, the restaurant, the service.…
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Can I love Melbourne as much as I love Japan? This question comes to me almost every morning ━ when I have to layer my clothes to go to work.…
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On our last night in Tokyo, when my friends were resting in the room, I wandered around Shinjuku to find Dorayaki.…
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What is coffee butter? Should I get it? Does it mean we should get a loaf of bread as well? Why none else is getting it? What if it's terrible?…
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I have been collecting Japan things to do for years in my notes. Things to do, to eat, to check out that I missed or want to do one day.…
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"Omakase is more expensive because we put the shoyu and wasabi for you" joked the chef in Kisume.…
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An Indonesian and a Chinese went into a Japanese Izakaya located in a small town in Australia; It sounds like a start of a bad joke, doesn’t it? But that’s precisely what happened. Liz and I are staying in a lovely Airbnb in Mt Macedon this weekend, and we went to Kuzu Izakaya tonight…
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