Our Adventures in Japan

I am not too sure when I learned about 175 deno tan tan men...but we recently went to try them. Buy your ticket from the machine and give ...

Saturday started at Yushima Tenmangu. The shrine for scholars. There were many ume (apricot) trees on the property as well as ume motif ...

I had been looking for the spoon with all the holes in it ever since we had tan tan men at Hokkai-ramen Susukino ...and finally found it at ...

Having been gone from Japan for about a month, many changes occurred, some food places shut down, while new ones opened. Some markets got r...

The weather turned colder, very quickly! (there is even snow in the Northern areas of Japan already...brr!) So what is a better way to war...

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...

Random photos...look how HUGE this yolk is? Must've been LL (what we call XL) sized! Saw this cloud on a walk, it reminded me of a spa...

Summers in Japan are HOT, hotter than the summers that I am used to in Hawaii. In Hawaii, we have tradewinds, this makes the heat of summer ...