Tag: food

My son has joined me here in San Diego, and we're having fun doing father-and-son stuff together in the States. ...

For a country that eats as much rice as Japan, they have some pretty interesting kinds of bread, too. Introduced ...

I've spent the last few days with Mrs. J-List in Las Vegas, relaxing after a hectic time at Anime Expo. ...

Bento are the famous boxed lunch consumed millions of times daily across Japan, and they've become a sensation all over ...

I've made the hop from Japan to San Diego so I can join in on the fun at Anime Expo ...

Peter's favorite thing about Japan, #345: izakaya (ee-ZAH-kah-ya), a kind of cozy Japanese pub-restaurant that's filled with exotic food and ...

There are many good things about living in Japan. It's a safe country, and you'll never experience fear here, except ...

The Japanese have some unique ways of looking at the world, and as an "outsider" (which is what the word ...

Yesterday was Father's Day, and my family and I went out to have one of our favorite meals, yakiniku, or ...

Everyone knows famous Japanese foods like sushi, sashimi, ramen and so on. But there's a lot more to eating in ...

One theme I write about often is the way Japanese have a positive, happy view of English. In part this ...

I've made a quick hop from Japan to "Los" (as the Japanese call Los Angeles) to attend the popular E3 ...

Today the J-List staff is taking off work a little early in order to have the kangei-kai or "welcome party" ...

I'm always amused the way the Japanese love dividing themselves into groups using the word ha, which means "faction," as ...

One useful way of understanding Japan as a whole is using the idea of kata, a word that can mean ...

My daughter is off to Hawaii this week on a school trip with her classmates. Japanese people and Hawaii go ...

Like Turkish, Basque and Korean, the Japanese language is an "agglutinative" language, which just means that a lot of information ...

Japan is a very seasonal place, where people are accustomed to doing what's appropriate for whatever season it is, and ...

One thing I can say about living in Japan is, it has made me appreciate the amazing variety of delicious ...

Today marks one month since the terrible earthquake and tsunamis that caused so much devastation in Japan. It's been a ...

I was driving around town with my family and they noticed how many sushi restaurants there were in San Diego. ...

My family has now joined me here in San Diego, and we're enjoying our time here even as we worry ...

The drama in Japan continues, two weeks after the worst earthquake in the country's history, and every day brings new ...

Japan's crisis continues, though things are slowly coming under control. As calm returns and companies work hard to normalize the ...