Our Adventures in Japan

Super humid and blazing on Saturday, but we got out and about and decided to check out Tsurumi, an area of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture tha...

Jimmy's is a chain type bakery in Okinawa, I've never actually been to one when we visited Okinawa, but think it may be similar to Z...

We recently tried a new (to us) pineapple variety called Chura Pine, which was grown on Ishigakijima. “Chura” is beautiful in Okinawan. And ...

We had a nice surprise this week. My relative, Chiyo-san in Okinawa sent us some mangoes. I called to thank her and we chatted for a bit. It...

Have been seeing mango in the markets. Some are imported from Mexico and are reasonably priced. On the other hand, the krazy priced ones ...

A couple of weeks back, we tried two Okinawan instant curries, for Curry Friday . One was a soki (sparerib) curry, this one had lots of te...

I think I inherited this pan when I moved to Japan back in 2001. In our family, this pan was used for one thing...corned beef hash. My m...

Recently in "ELLE à table", there was a story about different hot sauces of the world. One that was featured was koregusu, the O...

Remember those Thai chilies ? Well, I used most of them to make "koregusu" (co-ray-goo-sue) an Okinawan hot sauce. Just take s...

Craft Beers are slowly but surely making their way into the local markets. I like how they are bringing in more and more Japanese craft be...

I've posted about ninjin shirishiri before, but recently tried making it using colorful carrots (1 purple, 1 yellow and 1 orange)... ...

Have been wanting to make andasu (abura miso) for some time now. In Okinawan, "anda" means oil or fat and "su" is mis...