While this has very little to do with noodles, rice or any other food I had to include it here because it has been a feature of my travels so far. Every year the northern Honshu city of Aomori puts on a matsuri that features these massive hand built lantern floats. Each is about the […]
Try this on for breakfast. It was served up by the inn we stayed at in aomori.
Pickles, soup, grilled shellfish, rice, ham, salad, sauteed bits and pieces and sashimi. Not what I am used to but I think I could grow to like it. Of course the best bit was the presentation but the food […]
It looks surprisingly docile when you open the packet but there is nothing like a sickly sweet blast of strawberry ice cream to make you realise that this is some seriously sweet food. It is just 2 sweet pancakes (pikelets, hotcakes depending where you are from) sandwiched around strawberry ice cream. I am not sure […]
The answer is in the little quail egg that is hiding at the back of the meal. It is pretty difficult to crack a raw quail egg with out smashing it to bits and so the thoughtful restaurant gave me the perfect tool for the job. A little bit of overkill perhaps but better than […]
So here is a fairly standard dish of cold udon with dipping sauce but it comes with a little challenge. It took me a while to work out and I came to a few wrong conclusions before I got it. What are the yellow handled scissors there for?
So I’ve written about square and triangular watermelon…how about giant watermelon. I saw this one between Sendai and Aomori beside the highway. In truth I think it is a dressed up gas cylinder, but I never like to let facts get in the way of suika.
Hokkaido is famous for it’s dairy industry. Milk, cream and all the derivatives of these two. I was lucky enough to snap a photo of a guy heading home from the supermarket with an super-sized family serve of Yakult yogurt, presumably enough to feed his family for the whole week. If this isn’t enough to […]
Any combination is up for grabs in Japan. How about edamame (young green soy beans) and KitKat. It was a bit of a let down. Apparently combining two good things does not lead to a new good thing (sort of like how 2 wrongs don’t make a right). I’d rather eat edamame and then Kit […]
Sendai is a medium sized city that is famous for it’s seafood. Its fish market is one of the largest (but still well behind Tsukiji) and so the seafood is super fresh. We ended up with a sashimi banquet . You can see in the picture Scallops, maguro (slices and pulp), katsuo, sweet shrimp, normal […]
I stayed with a friend who sent me down the shop for a bottle of chochijan. I had no idea what it was or what it was used for but here it is and she used it ti make mabo tofu for us. Unfortunately I didn’t get the recipe from her. Does anyone out there […]
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