Last weekend I attended an exciting workshop on Dashi, hosted by none other than Dubai’s most celebrated Japanese culinary teacher: Chef Tatsu. The venue: Dubai’s hottest (and my favorite) Asian grocery, 1004gourmet. This is where I got to learn how to make …
Chinese tea boiled eggs (a.k.a marble eggs) are commonly sold as a snack by street vendors at night markets in China and Chinese stores and community get togethers all over the world. I haven’t been to China, but I’ve had these in …
Akihabara – the most “Tokyo” experience we had in Japan. I was foolish to have put it off as one of the last stops on our trip itinerary, when in fact this should’ve been one of our first stops in Tokyo! It …
Anybody and everybody who has ever visited my blog or social pages knows how much I love matcha. So when Erwin Heuseff shared in one of his vlogs how Nanaya Aoyama Gelato has some of the best matcha gelato in Japan, of …
During our trip to Tokyo, M was on a deadline to finish an online INSEAD course he had signed up for. Sometimes, he would call it a night earlier, to finish his assignments, and I would explore the alleys and backstreets on …
This is far from an authentic Japanese recipe, It’s just something I make very often (and by that I mean once a week), as it’s a super easy weeknight dinner. The recipe is a product of trial and error and tweaks simply …