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Chef’s Winter Recipes: Eiji Okamura’s Halibut and Langoustine

Chef Eiji Okamura initially joined the Palace Hotel Tokyo team in 1995 when he was just 20 years old. After a year, he transferred to a Japanese restaurant in Tokyo, then did a little stint in Frankfurt. It was a decade after when Chef Okamura-san returned to the Palace Hotel Tokyo in 2005 to work […]

What’s Up With Japan’s Penguin Bars?

Kotaku Editor and Japan Times columnist Brian Ashcraft recently reported on all the Japanese penguin bars. One recently opened in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro. But there are at least three others, including Penguin Bar Fairy in Okinawa Prefecture, and Arekey Dinning Bar in Nishinomiya (near Kobe), and Bar Little Feat in Kobe. The newest penguin bar is […]

Chef’s Fall Recipes: Eiji Okamura’s Seafood Pot Pie

Chef Eiji Okamura initially joined the Palace Hotel Tokyo team in 1995 when he was just 20 years old. After a year, he transferred to a Japanese restaurant in Tokyo, then did a little stint in Frankfurt. It was a decade after when Chef Okamura-san returned to the Palace Hotel Tokyo in 2005 to work […]

Cabernet Wine Exclusively for Cats Unveiled in Japan

B&H Lifes, a pet supplement manufacturer in Japan, has raised the bar when it comes to pampering your pet with the latest novelty. (Source) The company is offering wine exclusively made for felines called “Nyan Nyan Nouveau”” Japanese for “meow.” The company, which also produces Wan Wan Beer for dogs, named the wine for Beaujolais […]

Review of Frito Lay’s Pepsi-Flavored Cheetos

The only thing worse than junk food itself is a junk food hybrid. And Pepsi-flavored Cheetos is the latest offering, courtesy of some curious people in Japan. Writing for The Impulsive Buy, Steve claims his review is not so much a review as it is a mile marker for future historians to note when our […]

Asian Countries Suspend US Wheat Imports After GMO Wheat Find

A strain of genetically modified wheat developed by Monsanto was discovered in an Oregon field late last month, and has generated fear over food supplies across Asia, with Japan and South Korea cancelling any purchase U.S. grain until further notice. China and the Philippines said they were closely monitoring the situation. Asian consumers are opposed […]

Sugary Drinks Linked to 180,000 Global Deaths

According to a study by Dr Gitanjali Singh (Harvard School of Public Health) presented at an American Heart Association scientific conference in New Orleans, researchers linked 180,000 obesity-related deaths worldwide to sugary drinks, including about 25,000 adult Americans. One in one hundred deaths of obese people globally can be blamed on too many sweetened beverages. […]

Eat Drink Man Woman Review

Overall Rating (based on customer reviews): 4.5 out of 5 stars Your heart aches for Master Chef Chu  who not only has lost his ability to taste, but is also the father of three girls.  He struggles to connect with them and pass on his heritage through his food. This film by Ang Lee opens the windows […]

Gatorade Removes Flame Retardant From Ingredients

Brominated vegetable oil (BVO) is banned in food throughout Europe and Japan, yet BVO has been added to 10 percent of sodas in North America for decades. Now BVO will no longer be included in Gatorade sports drinks. Molly Carter, a spokeswoman for Gatorade owner PepsiCo Inc., said the company has been considering the move […]

B-Grade Cuisine: Japan’s Version of Comfort Food or Country Cooking

CNN International writer Yumiko Watanabe explores B-grade cuisine: Japan’s version of what America calls comfort food, country cooking, soul food, haute burgers, gourmet hotdogs, or gastropub. Watanabe explains that B-grade cuisine is not the “mainstream ‘quality’ stuff that’s simpered over on countless TV shows or put forward as an emblem of the ‘unique’ Japanese food […]

Four Die, 70 Sick, In Fatal Raw Beef Case

In Japan, a 70-year-old woman died from E.coli after she dined at a barbecue chain restaurant with a family member who died of similar causes the previous day. Two of the four who died were six-year-old boys, and over 70 have been stricken with food poisoning after E.coli was detected in a Korean-style steak tartare […]

Omai Vietnamese Restaurant Chelsea

I was practically starving as I walked out of the premiere of Jiro Dreams of Sushi. The movie is filled with the most gorgeous images of sushi and now I am planning a second trip to Japan just so I can eat at this restaurant. I was making my way to Morimoto (one of my […]

Fukushima Plate Reads Radiation Levels

If you have been reading my posts, you know that I recently came back from Japan. I was there right after the horrible incidents with the earthquake, tsunami and radiation plant. When I presented a girlfriend with delicious Japanese Kit Kats she replied “Blancs, I’m trying to get pregnant, I’m not touching that”. I was […]

Burger King Meat Monster

It appears that fast food restaurants need to always one up each other. What started with White Castle in 1916 and their idea for a high quality burger has turned to monstrosities. The latests has been unleashed on the unsuspecting public of Japan: The Burger King Meat Monster. I really thought I had seen everything […]

NY Loves Japan

UPDATE: Tickets are now on sale for this event. Click here to purchase. A good friend alerted me to this event, I hope to see you there. The New York Sake and Japanese Food Community have teamed up to host a fundraiser to support Earthquake Relief in Japan. The event will be held Wednesday April 27rd, […]

UN Warning: Collapse of Bee Colonies Now Global – Part 2

Part 1 Part 2 – Colony Collapse Disorder In Japan, 25 percent of the beekeepers have experienced sudden losses of their bee colonies, and in Africa, beekeepers report signs of the phenomenon known as “colony collapse disorder”. When collapsing bee colonies are accompanied by a “lack of dead bees”, this event has been associated with […]

Hello Kitty Brown Rice Nori Chips

I found the most delightfully Japanese product at the NY Restaurant Show: Hello Kitty Nori Chips (made with the approval of Sanrio). In college, I would buy the large packets of nori to eat as a snack. They would soon get stale and end up in the trash. These nori sheets are cut up into […]

Interview with Food Blogger Cyndi Allison

We heard about Cyndi for the first time when we interviewed Wilfred Reinke about his blog Oshawa Ogre’s Views, News & BBQ’s. He told us that he considers Cyndi Allison to be a mentor and the person who gave him the passion to write. We just had to check her out. Cyndi is responsible for […]

Sushi Samba Takes Blue Fin Tuna Off Its Menu

We love when restaurants do the right thing. We just heard that Sushi Samba has voluntarily taken blue fin tuna off its menus. Why are we so happy? Well, as huge sushi fans we do not want to see this fish become extinct.  Blue fin tuna is seriously over fished throughout the world and in […]

The Yearly Dolphin Slaughter – Japan’s Best Kept Secret Until Now

As dolphins migrate through the waters of a small bay off the coast of Taiji, Japan, fishing boats scurry out to meet them. Fishermen pound on metal poles submerged beneath the water, using the sound as a sonar wall to confuse and corral the dolphins into a fortified cove where a series of nets are […]

Japadogs Capture Gold at 2010 Olympic Games

Gourmet hot dog vendor, Noriki Tamura, and his two Japadog stands on Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver, captured gold with sidewalk eaters at the Olympic games. Frenzied Japadog fans, from competitors to street smart journalists, as well as celebrities like Steven Seagal, Ice Cube, and Anthony Bourdain, stood in all-day lines at the two Burrard […]

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