Spatula, Spoon and Saturday

Let me start with a corny haiku I wrote a long time ago for ramen.

I cuddle your warmth
And savour your essence
You flow lovingly

That was the first, and last, haiku I have ever written. I’ve never fancied myself a poet – let’s face it – there is no talent in that department. In fact, I didn’t even get the number of syllables right for a proper haiku. But that’s not what’s important. What is important here is I am about to tell about all the ramen we ate in Japan.

(A lunch deal we couldn’t resist in Asakusa, Tokyo)

Hungry, cold and slightly lost while trying to find Sensoji (Yes, the big huge temple you couldn’t possibly miss. Yes, we did miss it), we stumbled upon a sign that read… well we don’t know what it read. All we saw was a picture of a ramen and a fried rice. Who were we to tempt fate.

(Negi ramen)

Josh had wanted the negi ramen – with shoyu base soup and finely sliced Japanese leek. Delicious. Read the rest of this entry »

Previously on Food, Love & Tokyo (Part I), we had touched on yakitori, roast chicken, supermarket, ice cream, gyudon, soba and convenience store. I would like to dedicate this one to sushi lovers everywhere.

(Aburi sushi – sake, maguro and engawa)

We start with Midori Sushi – a well known sushi train restaurant in Shibuya for its quality but inexpensive sushi. We were warned of a queue out front (and there was) but luckily the queue moved fairly fast especially there were just the two of us. We started off with trio of aburi sushi which were fatty pieces of fish that had been quickly seared, presumably with a blow torch. I believe they were salmon (sake), yellow-fin tuna (maguro) and halibut (engawa).

Not too sure what these were.

A line of salmon nigiri flying past and honeydew melons. I have never seen honeydew on a sushi train line before. Read the rest of this entry »

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I think it’s about time I share you the rest of the photos from our honeymoon trip. Granted, it was a while ago but still better late than never (although my English teacher Mr Cadman used to say ‘better never late!’ – wait have I said that before?) Since I never got around to writing more individual posts about Japan, I will just split them into cities.

This one, and the next one, and possibly the one after that, will be all about Tokyo – my favourite Japanese city. Yes, they will be epic posts.

We’ll start off with some pictures from the small supermarket near our hotel.

Wagyu, baby!

Sashimi and seafood counter. Wow. Read the rest of this entry »