Japan – hitori de hanami, Yoyogi park, Tokyo
Japan – hitori de hanami, Yoyogi park, Tokyo
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A Field Guide to Sake
Found out that if you can chew a piece of potato for around a minute without vomiting, it starts to becomes sweeter. This is because the enzymes in saliva…
Gyudon – beef rice bowl
Were a copy of our daily newspaper to blow eastwards over the nullarbor to people who only knew of Western Australia as the place where soapie characters go…
Charcoal Cooked Crabs, Cold Soba, and assorted Tempura
Let's see if the reviews are in . Oh good a generous one, but then again, I do know where she lives. As slow and easy a Japanesey dinner party as there…
Izakaya
If Pubs had continued in a straight line from Inns as places where you could eat and drink rather than drink and then grab a souvlaki, then we may have ended…
Ponzu Salmon with Oroshi Daikon
Fish Monday. Tasmanian Salmon. It's hot and I'm not a salad person. Daikon (giant radish – Dai means "large" and kon is "root",…
One Cup, Several Links
Here's a fine pic of some bad stuff by a Mr. T. Goat of Ikebukuro, Tokyo nectar of the ….homeless Big fave of the unfortunate and lengthy slow train…
Pickled Daikon
One of the more unique features of Japanese is their love of onomatopoeia. Usually a two syllabled word repeated such as nuru nuru , bashi bashi and pika…
Modern Japanese Restaurant Yahachi, Subiaco
The Japanese pop-punk-band Hi-Standard are a fine band and do swell covers of "Love is a Battlefield" and "Can't Help Falling in…
Japanese Cookbooks
Andy over at Tripe Soup asked me if I could recommend any Japanese cookbooks so I thought I'd post it rather than hide the answer away in the comments…