Our Adventures in Japan

Hankyu Department Store in Umeda is having an Asian Fair. All sorts of foods and knick-knacks from countries like Thailand, Hong Kong, Tai...

It is the end of the month, so let's clear out some photos. There was an assorted fish (maguro, ika, salmon), shrimp salad maki for lunc...

I received this jar of marmalade awhile back from my friend, Kazumi.(Thank you!) Actually the expiration date has come and gone already on ...

There was a dessert, coffee azuki gelatin, that I used to make in Hawaii for office parties and kind of forgot about. Then, last month, whe...

The rainy season ( tsuyu ) started in mid-May for Okinawa and started last Friday for Kyushu, it's just a matter of time before we get o...

Meiji Chocolate just came out with a new dark chocolate called "Noir" (which I think means black or dark in French). It has 63% o...

Agar (also known as agar-agar and kanten depending on the source) is a type of gelatin made from seaweed. It's whitish in color, and co...