Our Adventures in Japan

Warning: this post is about semi (cicada)... When I was in Tarumi the other day, I noticed several trees loaded with semi (cicada). If y...

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

So that canned butter chicken I was talking about is a new item from Inaba. They are the same people who made those curries with the tuna i...

The sound of summer in Japan is made by the semi (cicada). They are awfully noisy especially in the morning. Sometimes you can even hear...

The media has been running pizza delivery ads left and right, so of course, it gave me a hankering for some pizza. I wasn't willing to...

Super easy dinner the other night which I based on a dish that we have in Hawaii called kalua pig and cabbage . Since I had almost half a ...

Lunch on Saturday was Tan tan men. A spicy sesame seed based soup with noodles. I've made this from scratch in the past . Since I d...

At the beginning of summer, you'll notice all these empty skins called utsusemi left by the semi (cicada). If you ask me, they give me...