Noodles and Rice

July 27th, 2007

Celebrating the Birth of a new website with Obento

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 […]

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June 29th, 2007

Obento in the real world

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 […]

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May 27th, 2007

In memory of a Ramen shop I loved

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 […]

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May 10th, 2007

Pseudo-Asian in California

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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March 31st, 2007

Where to Eat in Bangalore

A comprehensive list , from JasPari. And a few selections from the list:
Mavalli Tiffin Rooms, which was recently sold to the Norwegian company Orkla.
Koshy’s, from Deepak Gulati
Halli Mane
Another list from Satish, including non-Indian establishments
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Tags: bangalore, bangalore-restaurants, Fast Food, Indian, indian-cuisine, Restaurant Reviews, vegetarian-cuisine

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