Category: Food and drink

With Japan having such an intrigue for all things foreign and strange, you’d have thought that people here would’ve cottoned on to the glory of falafels long before now.

I feel a fanfare coming on, …

There’s Japanese food, and then there’s Japanese-Japanese food.

 What do I mean by that?

Well, you can quite happily enjoy a good ole donburi or tonkatsu at any ole greasy spoon and still call it ‘Japanese food’.

Or you can go the whole …

Fancy a nice cuppa tea, luv?
 
In J-land, it either boils down to (boom boom!) o-cha or ko-cha (that’s green tea or English tea for all those non-conisseurs), so Polly, put the kettle on.
 
But

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I know this might be enough to have most Japanese people up in arms, but I really do have to sing the praises of natto toast.

Especially in Kansai, people are usually sent squirming by

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A couple of years ago I met some delightful housewives who seemed to take a shining to me. The feeling is mutual, so much so that we occasionally go out on the town together.

Last week, they invited me out to a traditional …

Never been one for junk food, me. Just conjures up yucky images of yucky greasy yuck. It sticks to your insides and everything. Send that one right back.

But I do make one

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I’ve always maintained that Japan is the most eccentric country I know this side of the solar system, and that’s the reason why I love it so much.
 
Well, sometimes the proof is in

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You know when you go round to a mate’s place and they offer you a drink, you’d expect it to be a nice cup of tea, right?

Maybe my friends are just weird or something, …

My friend Masa has a penchant for gory movies. He says he doesn’t, but he so does.

Take yesterday, for example.

Sukiyaki Western Django which was basically a bloodthirsty

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To celebrate my friend Teppei’s boythday (incidentally not from Brooklyn, but I love the accent!), we all trundled off to a little (or I should say BIG?) gem of a restaurant in Umeda’s Chayamachi called Cafe La Boheme.

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