What do you get for 250 yen, about $2.50, today. I can buy almost 2 liters of gas, almost a starbucks coffee, or a train ticket across Tokyo. That is, unless you go tho the Obento shop at the bust corner of Asakusa right next to 2 of the entrances to the Tsukuba Express.
At this […]
My 2 year old daughter got the obento of her dreams last week. Imagine a cute little beautifully presented lunch in a hard plastic reusable Hello Kitty. She was over the moon. In the end she ate hardly any of it, but that is what being 2 is all about. But she did love the box and […]
I took a holiday that involved a shinkansen bullet train journey last week. On the platform I grabbed the nicest looking obento to eat on the way. By chance I stumbled on a self heating beef obento.
The deal is, you pull a string that is sticking out of the cardboard box and after 7 minutes […]
Tonight was a rush dinner, takeaway obento. And a nice one at that.
As you can see from the photo there is an assortment of food in there and a pile of rice.
It included potato salad and egg roll omelette. Some pickles, and a miniature dry oden selection. In the main compartment was some tempura piman […]
On Sunday I found myself cold and miserably hungry. I rolled down the street in search of something, anything that was hot and filling and before I knew it, there stood the 7-11 konbeni. Inside was everything a stomach could desire but it had to be hot so I had a choice between Oden, hot […]
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 […]
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