Category: Food
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Japanese Chocolate
Morinaga Salty Chocolate KitKat Triple Berry As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been seeing a lot of Salty Chocolate lately. I picked up the Morinaga Salty Chocolate candy the other day. I opened the box, expecting a standard candy bar, but instead I got about eight individually wrapped really small chocolate wafers. They […]
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Paying the Tax Man, and stuff around town
Busy day at the bank Making tatami Meiji salty praline chocolate When I get mail, I usually like to let it sit around and age for a bit, like a nice wine. In all honesty, I only get a few pieces of mail a week, and it is all blindingly obvious what it is just […]
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Mabo Tofu: Cheap and easy food
Mabo Tofu Mix: all you need for delicious spicy tofu Cut up your tofu Finished Mabo Tofu I’m always interested in adding new options to my menu of things that I can (poorly) cook. I often cook some kind of curry rice (it is one of my favorite dishes, it is easy to make, it […]
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Salad
I’ve been having salad more and more often. I would like to say that it is because I’m on a diet, but more truthfully it is because I’m lazy, and making salad is easy. Also, I don’t like thinking about what to eat. I like having a clear decision. Since thinking about what to eat […]
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Osechi Ryori
Toshikoshi Soba Sukiyaki Sukiyaki with meat Ocean Food Mountain Food Mochi Soup Roast Beef for Dinner I feel obliged to say that the next few posts on my blog will be about the New Year in Japan. None of them will really have interesting observations that haven’t been made before, many times, by foreigners in […]
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A delicious Christmas Dinner
Christmas Dinner at New York Grill Scampi Tails with Marinated Vegetables, Caviar Vinaigrette Jerusalem Artichoke Soup with Candied Hazelnuts Roasted John Dory, Wild Mushroom Sauté, Black Truffles and Verjuice Grilled Sendai Sirloin with Salsify, Palm Hearts and Cauliflower Chocolate Fondant with Bourbon Vanilla Bean Ice Cream Shinjuku Government Office Ever since I saw Lost in […]
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Pizza: A comarison between Italian, New York, and Japanese perspectives
Japanese Pizza Italian Prosciutto Pizza New York (Koronet) Pizza On my recent trip to Italy, New York, and Dallas, I ate some good food. Great seafood in Italy, and excellent steak and BBQ in Dallas. In New York, one of the things that I most wanted to eat was good old-fashioned New York style Pizza […]
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Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?
Kwik-E-Mart store front Chief Wiggum likes the donuts Lots of Buzz Cola Buzz Cola and Donuts As part of the promotion for the Simpsons Movie, about 12 7-11 stores have been converted into Kwik-E-Marts, the mythical convenience store from the show. Since there is one in New York City, and I happen to be there […]
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Unlikely food combinations: What are you thinking, Japan!?
This is a post that started from a Mixi post I made about unusual donuts (in Japanese) and then purely by coincidence the next day I stumbled upon some other unusual foodstuffs. First, on with the donuts. Don’t make donuts out of that Ham and Cheese Donuts Maccha and Azuki Donuts On the way home […]
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A trip to faraway Yokohama for Gyoza
日本語で Last Sunday I headed out to Yokohama with my friend after a relaxing weekend. About a year ago, a researcher I met while at Columbia University who grew up in Yokohama took me to a Gyoza shop in Sakuragicho, Yokohama that he said has some of the best Gyoza in Japan. For reference, that […]