September 3, 2008
Tagged along with the Education program at Japan Society last month for a trip out to Secaucus, NJ to visit Uoriki Fresh, a company that imports fresh tuna and other fish, and distributes it all over the east and west coast (their big client is Whole Foods). This excursion was a part of an intense […]
August 7, 2008
Been making a pilgrimage to the beach every Friday for the past few weeks now. It’s so easy- I just hop on the A train to Far Rockaway and I’m there in less than an hour. PARTAY! This also means that I’ve been eating at the Wharf. They’ve never let me down, not once, since […]
August 5, 2008
The 61st annual Maine Lobster Festival took place this past weekend in Rockland, Maine. So for those of you who’ve never experienced this lobster lover’s paradise, I decided to post pics from my pilgrimage to last year’s festival. If you really like lobster, then this is one journey I recommend you make because the Maine […]
July 30, 2008
So I’ve decided that my days of blogging virginity will be cast into the past, and what better way to hail the occasion and set the mood than with a blog about that most ancient of aphrodisiacs, seafood. As a precursor to a Lobster roll-centric New England road trip (posts coming forthwith) that I planned […]
July 23, 2008
We took supreme advantage of our jetlag and got up at 4:30am to go to the Tsukiji fish market. Here you can see the fish buyers taking core samples of the frozen tuna and inspecting them (sometimes eating the pieces straight) for fat content. We tried to sneak into the section where they supposedly auction […]
July 20, 2008
(For some Umamimart Rashoman, please see ayagwa’s perspective on this very same day.) So the day I flew into Tokyo, I met Aya, dropped off my stuff in the Shinjuku Washington Hotel, took a shower and a nap, and we headed over to the Shinjuku station to meet up with Yoko, fellow Umamimarter (or is […]
June 12, 2008
Little did we know when we walked into the Oyster Bar last night that it would be in the midst of a 3 week-long festival for fresh herring! I am reading now that the GCOB does this every year, to celebrate the first “nieuwe maatjes†herring of the season from the Netherlands. The herring came […]
June 2, 2008
I visited my friend in Alexandria this weekend. She teaches kindergarten in MD. Last time I visited her, it was right before the crab season, and she promised me she would take me to crabbing next time I am in the area. 2 years later, I went back. By this time, she got out of […]
May 12, 2008
Live Yobuko squid cut up and staring at you while you eat it. Tentacles periodically lash out at you. This guy was just beautiful and the best squid I have ever had. Culinary gold – my precious awabi simmered to its death in front of my eyes. Its resemblance to a vagina is uncanny. The […]
May 11, 2008
Living in this overhyped dining netherworld that is NYC, everyone has to have a place that is absolutely their OWN SECRET. It’s usually somewhere on the downlow, waaaay below the radar, somewhere that you hope to god won’t ever get written about in the lame-o Times or blow up on Yelp. This is how it […]