Gambatte, Jumanai Djimi Django!
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 [...]
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 [...]
Well, not really, but I hope that got your attention. If you don’t already know about Philip Harper, the toji at Kinoshita Shuzo, then you better find out as soon as possible. One way to do just that is to read John Glionna’s excellent profile of Philip in the 3 February LA Times. Of course [...]