Tadaimatte

An acceptable substitute, given the situation Hello blog, it’s been awhile! Like most of you, I’ve had little chance to be out and about in ...

Santouka is doing ramen right in Toronto. Yes! Things have been busy with NaNoWriMo going on - I apologize for the lack of blog posts t...

A few months ago, I was driving through Vaughan, north of Toronto, on my way to IKEA, when I passed something that took me completely by ...

Last weekend, in a fit of weakness (spent the entire day practicing either yosakoi  or tea ceremony ), I ordered myself a pizza. I came ho...

Photo from Secret Teatime's Facebook Page This past weekend, I went to a nabe and tsukimi  tea party held by friends from my time a...

Lately I've been craving those black sesame iced lattes from Dotour - so much so that I've even pledged to pick up some kurog...

I know I've already tweeted about this today, but I'm so pleased to actually see Amazon Canada  promoting a rice cooker sale! I b...

One of my favourite ice cream flavours is the simple and difficult-to-find Black Sesame. If you haven't tried sesame as a dessert then ...

Drinking melon soda and feeding my expensive cake habit. As you might have guessed, I have a penchant for cooking, and recreating food...

I cannot believe this is a real thing! Perfectly cooked! If you remember my post from a few weeks ago about my undying love for t...

Sometimes you have a picture that just cannot be added to an article. It needs an article to itself. This is one of those pictures (taken...

My favourite combo - curry topped with cheese and a crab cream croquette. Ever since I returned from Japan, I've been striving to ...

Delicious! These brownies from last weekend's Natsu Matsuri at the JCCC in Toronto were shaped like maki  sushi rolls. So cute!

Not cookie ingredients. After about a month in Japan, the glamour of eating milk cakes, Meltykiss and Pocky all the time was starting...

I love this description. Taken at a restaurant in Rokko, Hyogo Prefecture, near Kobe.

Osaka-style okonomiyaki at Okonomi House in Toronto! I briefly mentioned Okonomi House last week in my post about Tokyo Grill's ...

I visited T&T Supermarket recently after I found myself up at Promenade Circle, a fair way's out of my usual neighbourhoods. Prome...

Last week I was in downtown Toronto for some errand-ing and I thought I'd pop over to Tokyo Grill and grab something quick to eat. This...

Food's Biggest Scam: The Great Kobe Beef Lie This is a fantastic article on Forbes on the reality of "Kobe" beef. Not th...

Takoyaki  and other delights in the foodcourt of the Hanshin Umeda building As someone who called Osaka home and considers themselv...