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MING N TING
Drinks of choice. What were my loyalties? Mother’s milk, Lucozade, Cresta, PscHitt… I could write about each of those at length. I could pretend that I liked Quatro, but I really only affecte...
Clearing Up After Katsu
I noticed a friend retweeting this about Waitrose’s “Katsu chicken pastries”. For those of you not in the UK, Waitrose is a British supermarket chain. It’s generally considered the most ...
Statement of Purpose- Anti-Olympics Arts Council
antiolympicartscouncil : > In cities around the world that host the Olympic/Paralympic Games, > we continue to witness what are really Festivals of Repression, that > sh...
A Life in Dreck
Sat 16th April is Record Store Day (RSD). A day that I scrupulously avoid record stores. To be honest, I pretty much avoid them anyway. My record buying is mostly at charity shops (chazzas) and t...
STARTERS
Elvis in Blue Hawaii by Tarutana “I’ve been travelling over mountains/Even through the valleys too…” Etc. As Elvis sung on “Trying’ to Get to You” at the Sun Studio, Memphis, back...
Okura: Say Hello Wave Goodbye
I read yesterday that they were pulling down the Hotel Okura in Tokyo. What?!? How did I miss this? If I’d kept up my subscription to Monocle - lifestyle mag of an imaginary parallel world - I�...
Sandwiches: Open/Closed
About twenty years ago at a charity shop, I bought “The Book of Open Sandwiches”. Aspic! Whatever happened to aspic? I paid my 10p and took it home. I could remember open sandwiches in my chi...
Japanese Food
(Naval Curry at the Battleship Yamato Museum, Kure) I had a night in. What I miss most when travelling is not some specific dish from home, but the freedom to cook my own food. So instead of go...
I’m standing at East Croydon station. It’s about ten...
I’m standing at East Croydon station. It’s about ten in the morning on Sunday and I’m on the way to see my mother. My head’s occupied with mutter. Low-level complaints about train travel ...
HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD I’m in Kumamoto. I can’t...
HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD I’m in Kumamoto. I can’t say I know too much about the place. I’ve visited Fukuoka and Kagoshima in Kyushu several times before, but like the city of Miyazaki th...
The Anal Staircase What are holidays about? Toilets,...
The Anal Staircase What are holidays about? Toilets, infrequently. Some of my earliest childhood memories of being abroad or on the continent - as it was known - are Spain under Franco and pers...
The Kindness of Women I’m back on the island of Ishigaki...
The Kindness of Women I’m back on the island of Ishigaki after a couple of days on nearby Hateruma. Peaceful times! It’s not as if anything really irks me at the moment, but… Above is t...
A Brief Rant About Pricing
I’m on holiday in Japan. More precisely, Ishigaki in the Yaeyama island group, which is to the south of Okinawa and fairly close to Taiwan. It’s hot, the sun shines, the scenery is great and ...
Eating Out in Tokyo and Kyoto
Masatoshi Naito, 1970 I was asked by two different friends for recommendations, so to save time, wrote one post. So, you’ve lived in Japan already. Even if your Japanese is a bit rusty, you...
Tiny Balls: On The Bab and Elsewhere
A number of images have stuck with me from my first visit to Palermo in Sicily: my companion’s teeth glistening black with squid ink from across the table, the fug of smoke at night from the ba...
The Unforgivable Rampancy of Inauthentic Washoku
Hello, I am Shinzo Abe… One recent development in Japanese food is that “Washoku” has been been listed by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (ICH). Here’s that list i...
King of Kings, Umeda, Osaka.
King of Kings, Umeda, Osaka.
Madura/マヅラ, Umeda, Osaka
Madura/マヅラ, Umeda, Osaka
American, Sennichimae, Osaka
American, Sennichimae, Osaka
Expo Cafés
A few years back when in Osaka, I looked for a place that had just opened called Expo Café near Tenmabashi. It was a themed café with fair bit of memorabilia in it. I didn’t find it. It seem...