Gnocchi Or Die

Forgot to shoot the food though I had my camera sitting next to me on the table…it's that good stuff.  Got a fast snap of the dessert before devouring it in a maniac greedy way. Chanti in Sazasuka (since 1972) is probably my favorite Italian in Tokyo.

Japanese Food, Love It...

Called "nabe" in Japan. Perfect food on a cold night. Chicken, Pork, tofu, cabbage, mushroom etc etc, perfect with some South African Shiraz.

…or "Oden", ground fish, daikon, kombu, tofu in all shapes. Simmering in a clear and full flavoured  broth. Cold weather stuff!

日本

 Back "home" again. The last excursion lasted 3 years and turned out to be a rather enlightening experience as well as a complete "lost in translation" type of deal. I guess, when it all comes down to what one is set out to do as a lifestyle, how to lead an existing life as the core value, then the last 3 years was kind of cool and a worthy challenge that put enough good food on the table, a roof over our heads and I can now walk away with a new and better knowledge of how to deal with people and situations that was then new for me. Back in Japan, landed at a cold but crystal clear morning in Haneda and got a half forgotten reminder that things here work and the efficiency is just stunning. Hitting the city on my bike again has been great and Tokyo was showing me her best yesterday, under a ridiculously blue sky.  The nikku-soba I had in Koenji was just awesom, enough protein to last for a week!

Paul Bäumer's Paradise

-"We have to take our situation as lightly as we can. That's why we seize every opportunity, and why terror finishes up cheek by jowl, 

with tomfoolery, in stark juxtaposition and without any midway stage. We can't help it, we just throw ourselves into it. Here to we work like mad to create a paradise, a paradise, needless to say, of guzzling and sleeping".

All Quiet on the western front - Erich Maria Remarque, 1929.  

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Hungry V.S Done

George Town Noodle in thick gravy with mystery meat, shiitake and egg half. Condense-milk laden luke warm coffee to wash it all down…not bad! To know, learn and understand is to eat is to know, learn and understand. Would food critic be a career you think? World wide Blue-collar menus on a shoestring for people off the beaten track...