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Drunk girls love Koji’s pasta!

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I’m not sure how this got started or whose idea it was (probably Yutaka’s) but we (Betty, Mewby, Yoshida-kun, Yutaka and me) had a kind of impromptu takoyaki party at my house last Saturday. A lot of booze was consumed. And a lot of octopus balls.  And then the experimentation began… Shrimp balls were quite [...]

Behold the cakeness: I had a really mellow birthday on Sunday. Went to see the Avant Garde Kyoto exhibition at MOMAK. And after feasting my eyes on beautiful things we went to Pontocho and feasted our bellies on beautiful eats at a Pontocho balcony restaurant. Then after the necessary karaoke revelry it was home [...]

For the last four years I have taught Business English off and on at the Sumitomo building in Yodoyabashi. Thursday was my last lesson and my students took me out for dinner to celebrate. Here are Mr. Ohta and Mr. Iwasaki.

And here is Mr. Yokoyama and myself.

The food at Girond’s Jr. was excellent. It not [...]

At the weekend I went to the National Museum of Art in Osaka to see an exhibition by Hiroshi Sugimoto entitled “The History of History“. If you’re interested this is what the museum looks like (I don’t know why it has rabbit ears):
And here is a close up entitled “Girl Eating a Sandwich”.
But anyway, back [...]

Actually, it’s my kitchen. But it’s so incredibly small, that I can rarely be bothered to cook in it. As they say in Japanese: mendokusai. Every now and again though, Mewby comes around, steps into this tiny space and works small but tasty culinary miracles. I thought I would document one for you.
Salmon Patties in [...]

Back in the day, when we were all busy bees in Tokyo, working away at the Lado group hive and rocking out every Sunday for band practice (the band that never played), my old friend Kumar Sivasubramanian would get great pleasure out of trying to wind me up about my diet. I don’t eat meat, [...]

School Culture Festival today. Lot’s of students running around excitedly in costumes, handing out flyers and trying to drag poor innocent bystanders along to watch their performances. One ends up being pulled in several different directions at once and inevitably missing something. I think my Japanese listening skills may have improved since last year though [...]

Just a few links for a you today. Last night I had a lovely dinner at one of the restaurants overlooking the Kamo river on Pontocho. We had really great seats on the balcony and the food was absolutely fantastic. Naturally, I’ve recordered the occasion by putting the restaurant up on Deep Kyoto: 招月庵.
Not entirely [...]

We had a very nice evening on Tuesday night at Nakano-kun’s house. He invited us over for a takoyaki party and I have to tell you making takoyaki is really good fun. Besides “tako” (chopped octopus) you can put pretty much anything you like into the batter mix. We tried shrimp, cheese, pumpkin… I’d like [...]