Yakitori 焼き鳥 or grilled chicken (plus pork and vegetables) on a skewer is one of our favorite Izakaya-style food. When we visited New Yor...

I learned about this restaurant sometime ago on a previous trip to San Francisco. On that visit we stayed at the Hotel Kabuki in San Franci...

We visited the San Francisco Bay area recently to attend a wine tasting and dinner held in honor of my former mentor. My friend, who organiz...

Since I thawed frozen tarako たらこ (salted Japanese cod roe) and there was an extra eggs sack left, I made this dish just on a whim as an app...

One more dish made from North American chestnuts. This time I made “Kakiage” かき揚げ with onions and chestnuts. Chestnuts : I prepared the ch...

I tried to make this once before. This time I properly used scallop shells to cook the dish. This one is better than the first attempt but ...

A few years ago, we came across a good US brewed sake called G-sake "Joy" from SakeOne . Some time later we tasted a new batch of...