food/drink Archive

Do you want to little stimulus in everyday life? If that “stimulus” were snacks and you could get them easily, do you think you would want to try them?

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Happy new year! Did you have a nice holiday?

We have some special new year food in Japan. There are wide variations among them in terms of recipe and styles, no one knows the whole variations. Though they have common rules and they all contain few fat and a lot of vitamin and mineral. They are all healthy food. I show you them in this post.

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When drinking this sake, a fine flavor like a wild flower breathes. It is associated with beautiful and independent women.

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When you open this Dassai bottle, a brilliant sake aroma is released that makes you feel happy…It needs no explanation about its delight.

The sake is classified as Junmai daiginjo. “Junmai” means “made of only rice and water, contains no additives.” “Daiginjo” means “the raw material rice is polished off by 50% or more.” In general, the more a rice is polished off, the finer taste a sake gets so it costs a lot to make daiginjo but its taste is worth the cost.

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Castella has been a popular cake in Japan for a long time but it seems to be different from traditional Wagashi. It looks like a Western sponge cake, made of eggs, flour, sugar and starch syrup.
In addition, it is more sweet than ordinary Wagashi.

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Dogo, Matsuyama city Ehime, is the place where the great Haiku artist, TANEDA Santoka, died. He loved sake deeply, the sake is essential to talk about Santoka.

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“Michelin Guide Kyoto & Osaka 2010” is published in Japan on 16th Oct 2009. I think the guidebook is very helpful for Kyoto and Osaka tours.

However, the restaurants in Kyoto refused to be brought in the Michelin guide. Michelin Director Jean-Luc Naret criticized them as being conservative.

Sometimes Kyoto is regarded as an exclusive city. Is it true ?

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Dogo bakushu kan is a beer hall next to Dogo Onsen. It serves three kinds of local beers named “Dogo beer”.

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