Beautiful ramen
I got this bowl of ramen in Aoyama last night. It was the most amazing presentation. It was my first time to see nori written on like this. The cha-shu was spectacular too!
Soba & udon
I am staying with my friend in Yahiro right now, a suburb of Asakusa. It’s a pretty cool place to stay because there are no tourists there, and it’s working class families. There are a lot of mom and pop kind of shops. I was told tiny soba shops like this are rare these days. Every day they prepare noodles from scratch, and sell them for less than a dollar a serving.
Denny’s in Japan
I told my friend that I wanted to get wa-shoku, or traditional Japanese food for breakfast the other day. He was telling me that we should go to the Denny’s by his house, and although I was skeptical, I went with him. Denny’s in Japan has nothing in common with the American counterpart, other than the name. The menu looked really fresh, and shy of a few fried Japanese dishes, really healthy.
Pigs foot
It’s hard to tell what you are looking at here, but it’s a pigs foot from the izakaya RockMeisha in Greenwich Village. This was my first time tasting pigs foot. It was full of joints and bones, and some of the fattiest meat I have ever eaten. It’s rich and savory, and just melted in my mouth. I barely was able to chew it.
Recent stuff
I have been really slacking off again with the posting, and have tons of photos sitting in my camera. The first batch consists of all items homemade in my kitchen, but from several different nights. From top to bottom, we have: Chinese greens (I asked for dou miau, but this is all they had) under white fish (looked like sawara) cooked in chillies, lime, ponzu and ginger; Salmon with a teriyaki-ish sauce; Potato korokke with peas in the center; Gomaae with some left over fried bits form the korokke; Grilled Japanese negi, and finally, leftover-chicken-hash over a micro-greens with tangerine vinaigrette and poached egg.
