Restaurant of the Month: The County General

It was a mom theme this past weekend and rightly so as Sunday was Mother’s Day.  I kicked off the weekend with brunch at the County General with one of my favourite moms, my friend M.  I’ve heard a lot

Japan 2012: Happy Mother’s Day

Today’s post is for my mom and to my favourite moms out there 🙂 These photos were taken when my mom and I took a stroll along the famous Meguro River on our last day in Japan to view the

Japan 2012: Shaved Ice

As a kid, my favourite thing to eat in the summer time was shaved ice!  In one of my grandmother’s many parcels sent to us, she gave us a koala shaped, hand cranked, shaved ice machine.  We would make shaved

Japan 2012: Okonomiyaki

I still remember the first time I tasted an okonomiyaki.  I was 13 years old and visiting my Aunt and Uncle in Hiroshima that summer and my aunt made this traditional Hiroshima dish on a griddle set in the middle

Girls Night Out!

I’m taking a break from my Japan series for this post, its not every day that my really close circle of girlfriends get together just to chill and celebrate!  My friend B and her husband just bought their first house

Japan 2012: Harbs

If there’s one thing you notice about the Japanese, its their love for sweets.  Very much influenced by France and the rest of Europe, their cakes and pastries are based on European techniques but add Japanese flavour profiles.  Flavours like:

Japan 2012: The Art of Bento

If you travel around Japan by shinkansen (bullet train) you will soon discover that the Japanese have a fascination with bento boxes.  As you enter a shinkansen station, you can see a slew of either omiyage (gift) stores or bento

Japan 2012: Tsukemen

The second most common japanese dish, the first being sushi, is probably ramen – japanese noodle soup.  Everywhere you go in Japan you will inevitably come across a ramen shop, most of them are small mom and pop restaurants with

Japan 2012: Mister Donut

For those of us who travel or live in the US have at the very least, heard of Mister Donut.  Now I know what you’re thinking, why on earth would I bother going to Mister Donut when there can be

Japan 2012 – Restaurant of the Month: Crown Restaurant

When most people think of teppanyaki, Benihana is what typically comes to mind.  I haven’t been to teppanyaki in years, not many options here in my city of Toronto so when my cousin M and her husband suggested going for