Posted in dining out, food, food & travel, Japan, Japanese, Kamakura, Kyoto, Osaka, restaurant review, restaurants, Tokyo, travel tips, traveleating on Sep 28th, 2009
A 2 week ‘traveleating‘ trip to Japan has been planned for November. Even though it will be my fifth trip over a period of 20 years, the last 2 months have still been spent on intensive research and consulting Japanese friends. I used to organise detailed production schedules for overseas shoots as a TV producer [...]
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Posted in dining out, food, Japanese, London on Sep 2nd, 2009
Background: Japanese restaurant Dinings is the latest participant of the recent Taste of London festival that I chose to visit (the others being L’Anima, Launceston Place and Salt Yard). At Taste, I sampled a tiny bit of my friend’s wagyu beef tataki with ponzu sauce and porcini oil, as well as my own dish consisting [...]
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Background: Sushi-Hiro is a popular destination for Japanese diners, West London locals and all sushi lovers willing to trek across London for some of the freshest sushi and sashimi. One of my Japanese friends is always reminding me that it’s her favourite in the city for sushi. So when another friend (who lives locally and [...]
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Background: After missing Japanese restaurant Tsuru‘s sake tasting because of a cold, I was instead invited for a complimentary dinner. Accompanying me was my little brother, who makes a good dining companion because he doesn’t dine out as much as I do and therefore his judgement of what he eats is often clearer than mine. [...]
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Here’s a really simple recipe for zaru soba, cold Japanese soba or buckwheat noodles served with a soy-based dipping sauce. This isn’t for making soba noodles from scratch (although we do have buckwheat flour to make the flour blend!), but for preparing the dipping sauce. Although you can buy the dipping sauce in bottles, it’s [...]
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