fried mushroom rice bowl

Un-sauced, uncomplicated comfort in a bowl. Best served with art....

fried shishito peppers

the elusive (in toronto) shishito pepper and the right way to fry them....

spicy mushroom hot pot

DO: catch the broth that drips from your mushrooms in a soba-filled bowl....

grilled onigiri in a green tea broth

(Ochazuke with Yaki-Onigiri) If you've never eaten plum onigiri in ochazuke this might seem like an odd grouping of flavours. And words. Some ingredients...

the ingredient: umeboshi paste

Ripe Japanese ume plums, salted and stewed down with shisho leaves. That's all this is but I can't really imagine a substitute and despite eating it semi-re...

the ingredient: shishito peppers

Please excuse this blurry iPhone photo. Although I ate one hundred of them in one week, it seemed every time I was served shishito peppers in New York, it w...

sesame somen noodles with enoki mushrooms, napa and sprouts

This sauce has big flavour: heat from garlic and ginger, sweetness from a little sugar, tartness from orange juice. Perfect with somen noodles....

j-town

Where else can you get mini cookie as awesome as EVERY BURGER but a Japanese store? ...

sesame soba noodle lunch

egg poached right in my soba soup and seasoned seaweed on top....

zaru soba feast

with zaru soba, good noodles are key. the rest can be easy....

ramen noodle week pt. ii

i almost ruined the whole soup while i watched the canadian women's hockey team take the gold medal! but i salvaged tonight's shiitake and white miso ramen,...

ramen noodle week pt. i

i bought fresh ramen noodles so i'm experimenting with a couple of homemade ramen soups this week. tonight, a seaweed-steeped broth, with red, coarse miso a...