Unlike Superman, Ultraman, Anpanman and all of the other superheroes, Nikuman is just plain lazy. You will often find him lying around in a glass cabinet in a convenience store or in the front of a specialist nikuman shop. He is often found in the fridge or the freezer of a supermarket and will benefit […]
Tako Yaki has nothing to do with the Mexican Taco that most of the world knows. That is unless you include the mess that it makes of your shirt front when you try to eat it on the run.
Tako Yaki is BBQ octopus balls. Now some would claim that octopus balls aren’t big enough to […]
There are a million and one ways to make okonomiyaki. That is how it gets its name “As you like it” pancakes. I will describe what I think is the most popular way to make it in bulk at a festival.
Start by laying out a series of cabbage piles all over the BBQ plate. Let this […]
This happy looking gentleman is a Yaki Soba crafts-person. He makes hundreds of people extremely satisfied every day as he practices his art at an average Japanese Matsuri (even though there is nothing like an average for Matsuri). I’m sure his is a distinguished profession and it is definitely in great demand, but it isn’t exactly rocket science. In […]
Last weekend was the annual Tsukuba Matsuri (festival). This is not to be confused with the Tsukuba Matsuri that I mistakenly thought was on last month, and looked like being a very lonely, one man sort of festival until someone pointed out my mistake. This was the real thing.
Although the photo above, doesn’t really show […]
This week I launched a brand new website and if you will forgive me I will indulge in a bit of shameless self promotion before I get back to writing about Japanese food.
The new site is called LifeGoalAction.com and to kick it off, I wrote an article about Independent Thinking and gave it to a top […]
Obento is the term the Japanese use to describe a packed lunch box. It is a very broad term that encompasses a great variety of refinement.
If I asked you to picture in your mind a car, some of you would see a fast red Ferrari, some would see a family sized Honda, and still others […]
Last weekend I drove past a building site near my home and it wasn’t until after I was well past it that I realised that it used to be a Ramen shop and a block of apartments. Now this sort of thing happens all of the time in Japan. Build it… demolish it… build it […]
Oriental Chicken Stir Fry, Fun Town Market, Legoland, Carlsbad, California
Teriyaki Stir-Fry, Tea Pavilion at Balboa Park, San Diego, California
So it’s not “real Asian”, you say. Perhaps not. But sometimes you gotta love places like this that can offer hot-from-the-wok, bursting with flavor, chock-full of veggies, fill-you-up meals that may not be “authentic”, but […]
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