Archive for: April 2008

There’s Japanese food, and then there’s Japanese-Japanese food.

 What do I mean by that?

Well, you can quite happily enjoy a good ole donburi or tonkatsu at any ole greasy spoon and still call it ‘Japanese food’.

Or you can go the whole …

Ethereal. Ephemeral.
 
Ensconsed in cherry blossoms to my ears. Cheery. Yet wistful.
 
I love o-hanami with my heart.

In Kansai, the following spots are particularly recommended:

* Osaka Castle Park

* Osaka Mint Bureau (‘Zouhei-kyoku’; late bloomers)

* Sakura Shukugawa …

 Oh what a trip to go on a trip back to the UK after a long, long time.
 
I think I fell back in love with my roots, going back to the source …

Fancy a nice cuppa tea, luv?
 
In J-land, it either boils down to (boom boom!) o-cha or ko-cha (that’s green tea or English tea for all those non-conisseurs), so Polly, put the kettle on.
 
But …