Today is Blog Action Day, where bloggers from around the world have united to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind – the environment. Every blogger who is participating will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better [...]
From the folks who brought you Tamagogani and Yaki Aji comes, Kozakanani! They’re dried, sugared and looking you straight in the eye from their dissected sockets. Yes, Kozakanani is a melange of dried and candied marine life preserved for your eating pleasure!
Delivered to your mouth in Takuma Shokuhin’s uninspiring but promissory packaging, [...]
There’s a hierarchy of confections and snacks (okashi) in Japan, for those who didn’t know. At the top of the Japanese sugar mountain are wagashi.
Wagashi, as denoted by the wa-, are the traditional sweets of Japan which are painstakingly handcrafted with the finest ingredients. They include daifuku, dango, and botamochi/ ohagi. Many [...]
Here’s an East meets West snack that I’ve been putting off reviewing for a loonngg time. I usually don’t mind chowing down on the new and unusual, but something about the packaging gave the product a sinister quality. Maybe it was the command “Just Pack” or maybe it was the way the [...]
I like senbei (Japanese rice crackers). They satisfy my carb craving in a wheat free manner (mostly) so I can add another notch to my eating right regimen (Yeah right! Who am I kidding?). They’re also a good way to get my nori fix when the Seaweed Shakes come around (who else [...]
When I first started down my Japanese snack journey, many things were new, strange, and often times, frightening. Fish snacks skewered on sticks and lathered in soy and sake can look pretty daunting to an average Jane. All the Japanese words on the packaging, while written in romanji, are still a mystery to the [...]
Nothing reminds me more of summer than soda pop. It speaks to me more than pools or sunburns or even picnics. Why? Because I was always drinking cola while I was swimming, burning, or eating at a picnic. Cola is the common unifier during the summer months that was the one [...]
As I was perusing online Japanese fashion sites (which are either never in English or just show pretty pictures with no text), I came across a site which actually analyzes the sub-sects of Japanese street fashion, of which Lolita and Gothic Lolita are a part of.
Gothic Lolita is a distinctive style, though. Sweet or [...]
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