Oh what a night!?! I met a friend for dinner at Hachi. It was a birthday treat for him. The first time I met Adrian Loh was some years back. But we did not hang out again until now. Dinner was a five hours affair. Started with champagne, complimented with several lovely dishes by Chef Watanabe and e...

We interrupt this broadcast to bring you pictures of cute kids and pretty food; hopefully it will be a nice change from the whining of the previous posts. Thank you for your many kind and sympathetic comments. They really helped cheer me up, as did hibernating at home (where bad things never happen)...

I don't know quite what it is-- maybe we don't eat out often enough, or maybe our neighborhood just doesn't have enough good places to eat--but we don't really have any favourite restaurants. Sure, there's a fantastic sushi bar nearby but its high prices prevent us from become re...

Had a wonderful time at Kome. Me and bestie were well taken care of by Chef Lawrence, Gary and Raymond. It's always a plus when almost all their service staff address you by the name. :) Wanna thank Celes for taking my reservation through Facebook. Yes, I now resort to Facebook to make my dining res...

A combination of seaweed, dried shiitakes, canned clams and beans, this salad is completely simple and healthy....

Filed under: Food and Drink, Stories, Japan, News Last night in Tsuruoka, Japan, seven diners ate the wrong part of the blowfish: its balls. You probably know that fugu (blowfish), like many seafoods, is poisonous if not prepared correctly. According to Japan for the Uninvited, one blowfish has enou...

This is New Year's Eve dinner at my in-laws' house in Osaka: me, my sister-in-law, her daughter and husband, and my parents-in-law (and of course that's Hideaki behind the camera). We go there every year to celebrate oshogatsu (the new year), and those celebrations mostly consist of eati...

This is the sad, sad, breakfast I ate two weeks ago: hash browns, Egg Mcmuffin, and an orange juice. "What's sad about this breakfast?" you might be asking. "Doesn't McDonalds offer one of the finest breakfasts in the world?" You'd be right of course, and nearly any o...

Ah cute! this is famous video in Japan. That cat seems to enjoy it very much. This is another cute news of Germany. Did you read it? Elope is said "Kakeochi" and also if the couple chose the death it......

I was back at Kome again. Chef Lawrence recognised me from my last visit. Something tells me this is going to be my Jap Food hangout in 2009. The sashimi was fresh like the last time. The cooked food was yummy, too. I brought along my champagne and ordered sake. Des seemed to enjoy the food there. :...