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Kaiseki Journal 2: Minazuki-no-kaiseki
Please visit the first post of Tokyofood Kaiseki Journal, Shoburo-no-kaiseki to find out about cha-kaiseki and story behind this series. June Kaiseki Theme: Minazuki-no-kaiseki Minazuki is the sixth month in the traditional Lunar calendar Minazuki-no-kaiseki Mukozuke (Fish) – Tobiuo-no-tataki Tobiuo or flying fish is in season around this time of the year. It is filleted [...]
Jibuni at Jugatsuya in Kanazawa
If asked for a typical dish from Kanazawa, what would you say? Aside from crab, if someone says pickled fish or various parts of marine creatures, you know what that person likes to drink! Normally, I believe many people would name jibuni as signature Kaga dish. Jibuni at Jugatsuya, Kanazawa Wait, wait, what is jibuni? [...]
Kaiseki Journal 1: Shoburo-no-kaiseki
April marks the completion of my one year kaiseki cooking class at Better Homes! Yay! The class focused both on cooking techniques and on cha-kaiseki, which I did not know much about. Before taking this class I always thought kaiseki meant intricate culinary art and presentation, but understanding the cha-kaiseki tradition and philosophy opened up [...]
My Harbor: Kaminokae, Kochi
View of Nakatosa Kami-no-kae in the town of Nakatosa sits right on the Pacific coast of Shikoku between Kochi City and the Shimanto River. It’s a tiny fishing village that is almost off the map: our car navigation system said it wasn’t there even though it had successfully guided us up and down mountain roads [...]
3,000 Tuna A Day At Tsukiji
At Tsukiji While I was working on a post about Tsukiji for Nihon Sun, I got really curious about how much seafood moves through that giant market each day. Finding the monthly sales results at Tsukiji was easy. It’s a matter of public information and the Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market publishes the data monthly. So, [...]
Tokyo Government Now Supporting Non Fluent Foodies?
Have you had problems reading menus at restaurants when traveling in Japan? The Tokyo Metropolitan Government just rolled out a website menu-tokyo.jp to help restaurants create multilingual menus in English, Korean, and Chinese. The coverage of menu items is quite extensive. Just to test out how it works, I selected sashimi as a keyword and [...]
Omicho Ichiba in Kanazawa
Omicho Ichiba Omicho Ichiba is a must see for foodies if you are visiting Kanazawa. But, I hope you don’t make the same mistake I made if you are planning to go there! On my recent visit to Kanazawa in March, I almost missed the one thing I really really wanted to see, the market. [...]
The Economist probes soy sauce
On my way home from work this evening I learned about soy sauce as I rode the train. I thought I knew about soy sauce, but I see have quite a bit more to learn. I had never heard of soy sauce on ice cream before, but according to this interview with Yuzaburo Mogi, CEO [...]
Wajima Morning Market – Continued
Aside from the old ladies that make the Wajima asa-ichi so different from any other markets you see around Japan, the variety of seafood at the market is quite different too, even different from Kanazawa’s nearby Omicho Market. I imagine most of the items you see on the street in this little coastal town haven’t [...]
Wajima Morning Market
The morning market in Wajima, a small city in the middle of the Noto Peninsula, Ishikawa, reminded me of colorful markets I visited so many years ago in Las Paz. Ladies at Wajima asa-ichi do not wear tall hats nor do they braid their hair. Besides the rather gray and quiet market does not have [...]
Sake Tourism
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