Food

Japan: Holidays: Children’s Day: Kashiwa Mochi

Sometime in April you start seeing lots of items in the Japanese traditional dessert area of the supermarket wrapped in big green …

Here’s another great treat: murasaki imo soft serve ice cream, or purple sweet potato soft serve ice cream. Potato-flavored ice cream really …

Last year, my fried asked me to bring Tokyo bananas to Taiwan when I visited…and I thought she was kinda nuts, because …

If you ever see a bag like this in Japan, and I certainly see a lot of them in Yokohama Station, you’ll …

I’m on a roll with blogging Japanese sweets this week, so I might as well keep it up. (I’ve been ill this …

Here’s another bit of Japanese sweet for you: it’s a sakura roll cake. I suppose it could also be called a cherry …

I downloaded a new app…let’s see how posting from my phone works, shall we? This is ohagi, a traditional Japanese sweet made …

For the life of me, I can’t recall why I had two bananas growing overripe on the counter, but I did, and …

I can’t believe I’ve started titling posts with cooking… But never fear, my friends; you’ll soon see that I still can’t even …

I never saw a roll cake before coming to Japan. They’re not as fancy as layer cakes, but they’re so much easier: …