There are lots of interesting and unusual food experiences in Japan, but there are few that beat sushi. The best sushi is a minimal and perfect food--made from the freshest ingredients lightly prepared by an expert who has trained for decades to be able to prepare this oh-so-important Japanese food. The most formal way to experience sushi in Japan is to order the omakase service. "Omakase" ...
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Visiting a Sake Brewery… in San Francisco?
You're on a culinary tour of San Francisco. You've visited an esteemed winery in Napa or Sonoma... check. You've visited one of the Bay Area's great craft beer breweries... check. You've visited a Japanese-inspired sake brewery... wait, what?!? Brewers have been making sake, a fermented rice alcohol, in Japan for over a thousand years. In recent years, a few American makers have brought the ...
40+ Holiday Gifts For Travelers
UPDATED: March 2021 The travel-addicts on your holiday shopping list are probably some of the hardest people to shop for. It's not that those of us, afflicted with wanderlust, don't want things: We want more vacation time, we want to score a good deal on a flight to Paris, and we want to see the Northern Lights someday. Unfortunately, those things are hard to wrap up and put under a ...
Japan Love at J-Pop Summit & Sake Summit
Update 7/2016: The J-Pop Summit is returning to San Francisco, July 22-24. This year they are adding an expanded Japan travel section and a "Ramen Summit" (!) to let you try all of the Bay Area's best ramen noodle soups. Find out more on the website: www.j-pop.com People that love Japan, LOVE Japan. I don't think there are that many places in the world that elicit this much obsession from ...
Baseball in Japan: Watching a Yomiuri Giants Game in Tokyo
Here in the United States, baseball season is here. I'm not a big sports fan, but I do have fond memories of playing softball and going to games with my dad when I was a kid. Plus, I am married to one of the biggest fans of the 2014 (2010, and 2012!) World Champion San Francisco Giants. So, I always enjoy catching a ballgame. It's a sign of spring, just like blossoms and barbecues. When we were ...
10 Things You Have To Do in Tokyo
Within an hour of passing through Japanese customs, I was throwing up in the back of our Tokyo-bound taxi. The interpreter tasked with showing us around Japan for the next week looked worried. This was not the first impression I wanted to make. I attribute my sudden illness primarily to the stop-and-go, rush-hour traffic, but also to a little case of the ...
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