February 18, 2009
For some reason, anago (saltwater eel) is not so popular in the States- its freshwater sister, Unagi (freshwater eel) just took the limelight and ran with it. Perhaps it’s because anago is not as buttery, I’m not sure… poor anago, it’s the underdog eel. But I’m telling you folks, anago is BETTER! It’s just delicious […]
February 6, 2009
Although my stomach was feeling weird, it didn’t stop me from my Friday night Half-Price Sushi ritual. I got to the store around 20:00, which is well after the markdown at 19:00. But there were still some varieties of sushi left. Something drew me to the beautiful cubes of maguro. Mmm. Marked down from 580 […]
February 3, 2009
As my introductory post, I would like to tread upon virgin Umami Mart territory… DUN DUN DUN… *HOSPITAL FOOD*! Perhaps it doesn’t have the allure of airplane foodstuffs, but hospital food is interesting in a way that one day you might have to visit your grammy there or maybe you end up there after partying […]
January 23, 2009
One of my favorites ways to unwind after a long five-day week in salaryman hell is to gorge on supermarket sushi on a Friday night. If I am lucky enough to be done at work at 6pm, I rush out of Ginza to make it back to my neighborhood supermarket in Shimokitazawa just before 7:00:00pm. […]
October 18, 2008
It was my friend Jonathan’s birthday party last night at his new house. Buzzing with lots of English speakers and models from Romania, I bust open the door and there’s a naked girl on his dining room table with sashimi all over her! If you haven’t heard of this phenomenon it’s called “Nyotaimori” (direct translation […]
October 1, 2008
You saw them, they were lobster rolls. No, it should have been said “shit load of lobster meat on a hot dog bun.” There should be a clear indication of how lobster rolls are being served. They had lobster bisque with or without meat, so lobster rolls should have had a choice of “as is” […]
September 5, 2008
Sorry, a boring post without photos. Sucks, I know. Recently I got into a discussion with Kayoko about Yelp.com. I was surprised that she wasn’t an avid Yelper. I had recently been scouring through Yelp looking for out of town recommendations– where was the most popular taqueria in San Jose open past 10pm; is there […]
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 5, 2008
My friend Naoko was in town for a few weeks on business from Tokyo and we spent a lot of time together eating and drinking. We’re so dangerous together- it’s like we feed each other’s food/drink addictions, we don’t stop. So Naoko knew a sushi chef at this new place called the Greenwich Grill in […]
July 28, 2008
I made it to Cupertino to meet the Kakaboris. I was with my mother, and on our way to Half Moon Bay, we stopped by there. It was about an hour drive from San Francisco. We rented a huge ass Chevrolet minivan, which was like, “who the hell drives this kind of monstrous gas guzzler […]