Category: Food
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Namja Town
Namja Town Cat Namco beer! Ice Cream City All my Namjatown pictures All Flickr Namjatown pictures On Wednesday, I had a day off from work on Wednesday, so I met up with Risa and we went to Namja Town. Namja Town is a strange place in Ikebukuro, Tokyo that is essentially a food-based theme park […]
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Maid Cafés in Japan
Pinafore Maid Cafe The witch bar unattico-sttrega January 15th 社会研究調査 As part of a societal cultural research learning field trip, Benkei and I went with a friend of his to the Pinafore Maid Cafe. We went on a Wednesday evening, in the rain. This actually turned out to be pretty important, but more on that […]
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Let’s pound rice together (not a euphemism)
Rice pounding set. Rice Pounding Festival Free Sake! Kids enjoy pounding rice! Last weekend, on Sunday I left my apartment to get something for lunch and ran into the local rice pounding festival. I guess these festivals are common during the New Year, since they are basically about making that delicious Japanese pounded rice treat […]
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Whale cutlets in the Cafeteria?!?
Today for lunch in the office cafeteria one of the set lunches was a fried cutlet thing. Usually (almost always) this is a pork fried cutlet option that comes with rice, some miso soup, a small salad, and some tofu. I assumed that is what it was today, but when I looked at the card, […]
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Adventures in Cooking: Omurice
Japanese Omurice I haven’t had the time to cook since I got to Japan. While I was at IKEA the other day buying a new sofa, I also picked up a Skänka wok for about 2,500 yen. I thought it would be a good time to test it out. I’m big fan of Omurice. (Omelette […]
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Cooking, writing, and revising
This weekend has been consumed entirely by writing and revising, with a short break in between to cook dinner. I’m trying to finish off a fellowship application by Sunday, but I also wanted to cook, something I haven’t done for a long time. I decided I’d make my standard spaghetting meat sauce (mushrooms, multi-colored peppers, […]
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Hamarikyuu Park and Monjya-yaki
F. and I went for a walk in Tokyo on Saturday. We first went to Hamarikyuu Park, and looked at some of the cherry blossoms. They are just about in full bloom now. NHK was there filming, which we later saw on TV that night. Hamarikyuu Park has a pine tree that is 300 years […]
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Trip to Hiroshima, do I have to change this website to FuguTabeta.com??
On Tuesday evening I took a train from Tsu to Nagoya, and from Nagoya to Hiroshima on a Hikari Shinkansen. The picture is actually of a Kodama Rail Star train from Hiroshima because the shot I got of my Nozomi 700 Series Shinkansen from Hiroshima to Tokyo didn’t turn out well. On arriving at Hiroshima, […]
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Evans Siblings Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving at my place. I even cooked a Turkey, since both of my sisters came here!
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Say Hi To Your Mom
Caught Say Hi To Your Mom at the Mercury Lounge. It was a great show. They are a great band. Had dinner at Waikiki Wally’s (a really kitschy Tiki place, sister restaurant to Lucky Cheng’s) before that. Really cute ambiance, and surprisingly good food.