Tag: food

The other day my son had a holiday from school, so I took him to one of our favorite restaurants ...

J-List always stocks hundreds of awesome Japanese bento boxes for you, like the classic Hello Kitty traditional bento box, or ...

Amazingly, I am actually headed back to Japan after three months spent in San Diego doing various important family and ...

It's interesting being back in the U.S., because I get to experience that rarest of sensations, reverse culture shock, when ...

One fun group of Japanese words consists of a single word repeated twice, which makes the words more charming and ...

I'm having fun spending time in my American house with my Japanese daughter, although we both tend to get homesick ...

Yesterday I took my wife out to my favorite Mexican restaurant in San Diego. While she scarfed down the refried ...

No matter how long a person lives in Japan, there are always things that can bring on what expats call ...

Normally when I come to the U.S. the last thing I want to do is eat Japanese food, since there ...

The other day I went out to a seafood restaurant with my wife and daughter, who are visiting from Japan. ...

Suki desu ka? One of the first useful words a student of Japanese learns is how to say "like" (suki), ...

One interesting aspect of living in Japan is getting used to the, ah, unique pronunciations of English words the Japanese ...

When going to the U.S. from Japan, there are little things you notice. First, being able to pay for something ...

In a recent update I mentioned that the way to express the idea of "brown-nosing" someone was goma o suru, ...

San Diego has a vibrant Asian community, and driving down the Convoy Street will introduce you to a wealth of ...

Japan is probably the only country where eating too quietly will get comments from people around you. The correct way ...

While the Japan Language Proficiency Test is the most recognized test of Japanese, and likely the best for anyone studying ...

Although rice is the famous staple food of Japan, eaten with almost every meal, the Japanese are no slouches when ...

Let us all pause a moment and reflect on how awesome Egg McMuffins are. When I was six years old, ...

Over the weekend I took a trip down to Tokyo for a business meeting and to enjoy some quality shochu ...

One of my favorite foods is sushi, and when someone in our family has a birthday, we often send out ...

Well, Lost has finally ended, and I have to say thanks to the producers and cast for one wild wide. ...

Sometimes when we add new products to the J-List website, we've got a pretty good idea they might be popular ...

Today I went to the convenience store to grab one of those pre-made microwavable bento lunches. After choosing a "hamburg" ...