Toeps' book starts with Japan. She takes the reader on an imaginary trip to Japan, where everything is different (if you're not Japanese).…
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There I was, lying on the hotel bed in Cairns, reflecting on my travelling while half dozing off. The trip was only half done.…
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On the way home from Minamishima, as per our little post-Omakase tradition, we discussed the food, the restaurant, the service.…
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Can I love Melbourne as much as I love Japan? This question comes to me almost every morning ━ when I have to layer my clothes to go to work.…
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On our last night in Tokyo, when my friends were resting in the room, I wandered around Shinjuku to find Dorayaki.…
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What is coffee butter? Should I get it? Does it mean we should get a loaf of bread as well? Why none else is getting it? What if it's terrible?…
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I have been collecting Japan things to do for years in my notes. Things to do, to eat, to check out that I missed or want to do one day.…
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As the saying goes ━ you don't forget your first Onigiri. I had mine at the Fushimi Inari train station on my first Japan trip with my best friends.…
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"Omakase is more expensive because we put the shoyu and wasabi for you" joked the chef in Kisume.…
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During Hungry Ghost Months, humans do the age-old tradition of ancestor worshipping and hungry ghost appeasing as it’s believed that the spirit-world gate opens, and the ghosts return to the living world for a whole month.…
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