Category: Japanese

Hare & Tortoise: For the love of Unagi.

It happened during the summer after I graduated from university. I was attempting an eight week trip to cover five different countries, sampling unagi at all the destinations I touch down upon. By far, the most memorable experience was at Kura in Sydney – a…

Dinings: The Romantic Choice [Review]

Dinings £40pp 22 Harcourt St W1H 4 020 7723 0666 To this day, I still think the best miso cod are the ones made in the Nobu Kitchen, particularly the Berkeley branch. Ex-Nobu Chef Tomonari Chiba has left the establishment to set up his own…

[Guest post] Storming into Tsunami

Kang says: How’s your weekend going folks? Any issues with the clocks going forward? I’m doing a little post exchange with the story of how boys and girls need to eat. In this one, a girl has to eat lunch, japanese style. Hope you like…

Sushi train bingeing

The word binge is so 2007. I’ve been off for two weeks and the sky is still falling down on London, seriously when is it all going to stop? Did anybody miss me while I was away? I did manage a couple of reviews on…

Abeno too: flippin’ pancakes. [Review]

Abeno too Official site 17-18 Great Portland Street WC2H 7JE 020 7379 1160 There are seven stages toward Okonomi-yaki englighment (source: abeno). First there is the arrival, then there is the mixing, after that is the pouring. Shaping then takes place, and comes cooking before…

Heroic freshness at Sushi hiro (review)

The great thing about running a food blog is that people tell me what’s good around town. I thank them and then proceed to said recommended place to eat my heart out. Sushi Hiro is one such place, as recommended by Yenni and in her own words, this is…

Review: Sakura, Oxford Circus

Sushi is sometimes misunderstood as the culinary delight of raw fish when it actually refers to vinegar-ed rice and roughly translates to meaning sour. Definitions aside, sushi is one of my favourite types of food, its healthy (only 3% fat apparently), simple and tastes great.