After more than a day of travelling, we finally arrived in Japan. So far, I have had a beef bowl in Yoshinoya and checked in to the hotel.…
Keep ReadingI am on a plane to Japan. They served authentic Japanese cuisine: bento rice and soba noodle. Both meals were Oishi!…
Keep ReadingIf there is one shrine you shouldn't miss in Japan, it's the Fushimi Inari Shrine. The shrine is dedicated to Inari kami, the god of rice.…
Keep Reading“All the Japanese food I ate on my Japan trip has been amazingly delicious. It doesn’t matter whether it’s in a hole-in-the-wall restaurant or inside top to-bottom glass doors restaurants; something I bought from 7-11 or vending machine“, I tried to convince Fafa to book a table at Jiro Sushi restaurant in Tokyo as…
Keep ReadingWhere is home, during my travels, people ask this all the time — a way to say they notice the non-typical accent of the brown-skinned girl.…
Keep ReadingI am rediscovering the joy of board games. It started when I offered Liz to bring a board game in lieu of a cooked meal to her hot pot dinner.…
Keep ReadingLet’s talk about noticing the beauty of ordinary things while travelling. A skill I am slowly losing, especially if it's in my own backyard.…
Keep ReadingTrain rides bring you to your destination, literally, but also mindlessly. The exact opposite of the hassle of plane rides.…
Keep ReadingIt shouldn’t be a surprise since we all call McDonald’s differently in many pockets of the world. In Indonesia, we refer to it as “MecDi".…
Keep ReadingIf I lived in Sydney, I would be a regular at Devon Cafe for sure because their food brought me back to Japan. To my Japan and lots of happy memories of Japan.…
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