Counting my wins: I have taken Amma to ride the Shinkansen, we visited Niigata—a new place together, and I ate the best onigiri of my life.…
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I finally tried the notorious Nattō, a Japanese delicacy of fermented soybeans. Nattō usually accompanies Asagohan, a traditional Japanese breakfast, but it can also be eaten with a bowl of rice or even as is. I had it for the first time in CIBI, a so-called Japanese breakfast cafe in Melbourne. Their Ultimate breakfast…
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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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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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As the saying goes ━ you don't forget your first Onigiri. I had mine at the Fushimi Inari train station on my first Japan trip with my best friends.…
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I would get to tick off from my ultimate Japan trip list or add more to it. But I would be okay either way because I will always miss Japan.…
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Gyoza Gyoza has delicious tapas-style Japanese food. From edamame, yakitori, takoyaki to miso soup. And their drinks are delicious.…
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One of the things that excited me the most during my Japan trip was the daily visit to the Japanese supermarket. So much so that on the last three trips I picked our hotel based on the walking distance to a Japanese supermarket. To be fair, it’s not that hard, as there is at…
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“It feels like coming home“, Fafa told me while dragging our luggage out of the Oshiage train station. I smiled and nodded. I thought of the same thing when I sat on the toilet at Haneda airport. Both I and my ass felt the heated welcome. Japan Trip On Repeat On the first day,…
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