Category Archives: Food & Drink

From the Japanese Kitchen: “Ozouni” New Year’s Rice Cake Soup

  As soon as Christmas time is over, Japanese people start preparing for the new year holiday. Today I would like to introduce “Ozouni”, a special, traditional Japanese dish for…

Single Customer Targeted Business Finally Opens Yakiniku Restaurant!!

This topic may sound slightly sad when we are just approaching family gathering season ^_^  “Single customer” targeted business has been focused in Japan, and it finally came to open…

Over 350 Menus!! Unique Tinned Food Bar

In Japan, some unique bars such as ‘cheap snack and sweets bar’ to enjoy snacks and sweets on all-you-can-eat basis in a nostalgic-looking shop and ‘horror bar’ to enjoy atmosphere…

From the Japanese Kitchen: Salmon “Chan Chan Yaki”

  In Hokkaido (Japan’s northernmost island) we have a local dish called “chan chan yaki”. It’s a Hokkaido fisherman’s hot pot full of fish (usually salmon, sometimes trout) and vegetables….

Pamper Yourself with Gorgeous Osechi on New Year’s Day?

Zoni is an essential food for Japanese new year.  But more importantly, you wouldn’t be happy to start new year without osechi ryori, the nicely boxed traditional new year food….

Amazing Coupons from Domino’s Pizza Japan

  Domino’s Pizza Japan is providing very unique discount coupons from their campaign website. Just choose the coupon that best applies to you and post it on Twitter or Facebook,…

From the Japanese Kitchen: Thanksgiving Tebasaki Chicken Wings

  Actually, we Japanese are not familiar with Thanksgiving customs. We know that people have turkey dishes (usually the whole bird?) for Thanksgiving, but Japanese people don’t eat turkey very…

[Photoblog] Gokumaki

Gokumaki (rice cake scattering in English) in this area was pretty vigorous~♪ Taken is the Furu Matsuri Festival at Kunitsu Shrine in Tsugeshiraishi-cho, Nara. Copyright(C) Miki →Miki’s twitter← (English is…

Morning Experiments by a Curious Man

  Drinking liquids is very refreshing. Drinking liquids also makes us urinate. This is the natural way of things. But not every liquid produces the same effect. The intensity of…

17 Best Japanese Rice Bowl Dishes!!

An article for today is the most suitable topic for a season of appetite; tasty food in Japan. It is about Zenkoku Gotouchi Donburi Sensyuken (All Japan Local Rice Bowl…

[Photoblog] Walking in Rice Fields~♪

 Taken in Ikaruga town, Nara. Copyright(C) Miki   →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK)   This is JAPAN Style!  

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