Food
Ramen Dreams is a short documentary dedicated to ramen that has just been released. It follows the line of Jiro Dreams, the documentary film about sushi, but this time the main topic is ramen instead of sushi. Keizo Shimamoto is the chef featured in Ramen Dreams and in addition to being a cook he also [...]
These are photos of a shop in Shibuya that only sells seaweed. All kinds of seaweed! One of the most well-known seaweed is nori, which is used to wrap maki-sushi. It is also eaten as a snack or along with steamed rice. When I arrived to Japan I didn’t like it that much but after [...]
There’s a promotion by Burger King Japan that gives customers the option to add 15 pieces of bacon to their Whopper for an extra 100 yen (around 1 euro / 1,25 dollars). The promotion “has become viral” and yesterday it was the main topic of conversation among my coworkers. Of course somebody had to test [...]
Shortly after arriving to Japan for the first time I went one day to Shibuya to have dinner and I ate this: My Japanese friends told me that they were Ginnan, a fruit of the Ichou 銀杏 tree, known in the west as ginkgo biloba. I had never heard anything about this, so I was [...]
The sushi served in the Jiro restaurant in Ginza is considered the best in the world; it was the first sushi restaurant to receive 3 Michelin stars! Unfortunately I have never been there; you have to make a reservation (there is only place for 10 people) and a normal meal costs between 30,000 and 40,000 [...]
Nestlé Japan usually releases different Kit Kat varieties depending on the year season. My favorite one is the green tea Kit Kat. Another marketing strategy is to sell certain varieties of Kit Kat only in some provinces. This way when people travel around Japan, they notice the specific varieties of the regions and even buy [...]
Last week, finally, I had the chance to go to the famous restaurant Nobu Tokyo. There are Nobu restaurants all over the world, here you have a list of all of them. Having dinner in Nobu Tokyo is quite expensive, but you can have a REALLY good meal at lunch time for around 20~30 euro [...]
My brother sent me the other day this reddit link that has videos with bizarre food in Japan. It’s not something you can find every day in Japan, but you can find it if you really look for it. I have seen and eaten the dancing squid dish sometimes, although my dish was not dancing [...]
