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Sasanoyuki is in Negishi not too far from the area you are looking in. Ruth, are you maybe thinking of Ume no Hana? it is a very popular chain tofu kaiseki restaurant.

SHIMANE PREFECTURE (region = Chugoku) http://www.kanko-otakara.jp/webapps/Classi...ize&district=05 to discuss the foods of Shimane go to this thread: http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=67440

There are tons of bento making/design contests put on by various groups, cities, food companies every year. As to bento books, There are hundreds of them and this is one of the best times to be looking for them as it is the beginning of the school year. All the bookstores currently have special displays of them and some can be very specific. Bentos for high school girls, bentos for pre-school boys, bentos for a newlywed wifr to make for her husband.... If you have access to a Japanese bookstore you should be able to find a couple. There don't seem to be too many in English but I did find Bento Boxes: Japanese meals on the go Cafe Japan

I tried looking at a couple of the big ones and none mentioned overseas subscriptions.... Magazine subscriptions aren't very popular here, I subscribed to Kyou no Ryouri one year but I got so mad because I would get it a week after I saw it in the stores....

Just a note to let everyone know I have merged this with our previous Jaapnese magazine thread, so you may want to scroll up if you missed it the first time.

Is EAT magazine (English/Japanese) still going? ← I remember paging through this a while ago (maybe as far back as a year) and I can't find too much about it on the internet past 2003.... Once I can walk again I am heading straight to a book store!!

Smallworld mentioned my two favorites, Elle a Table and Kyou no Ryouri, these are normally the only ones I buy now. I used to enjoy Tanto but it disappeared a couple years ago. I will glance through them all at the bookstores but I rarely find anything worth making in the orange page and similar other ones, they seem to focus too much now on quick foods and not necessarily good. Are you sure about the price of Orange Page? It is cheap but not that cheap... The picture is small but it looks like it is 260 yen (about $2.50)

Sounds like you were at Heights when all of my sisters were there.... I lived just down Warrensville in Cleveland Heights but lived at Cedar Center during my high school years as all the cute guys used to work at Bernie's (now called Marc's, but it will always be Bernie's to me) I love to shop at Bernie's (Marc's) I have gotten some great food deals there, one time they had boxes of couscous for $.88, I picked up a year's supply. That area sure has changed though I go back every year to year and a half and last summer the area looked so sad, half the stores were gone. I am so glad to see they are renovating it. I just hope they get some for interesting stores in there. I was dissapointed with that shopping place they built on the corner where May Co used to be, how many more Targets and shoe stores do we really need?

in the middle of the matcha thread gus worked on a matcha mousse as well, starting with this post and in my Soy Class at eGCI, I made a mousse like dessert with soy milk. It is the very last recipe.

that is interesting I have never had shiso that didn't taste like shiso.... Ocassionally when I was using the oldest leaves of my own shiso plant, they would almost be tasteless (Kiem Hwa also mentioned this), but I have never had a taste like you are describing.

darn! maybe next year...

Gyukaku, the popular yakiniku chain, is now selling their ice cream at convenience stores! Currently they are only selling the vanilla with kuromitsu and kinako (scroll down for a picture) I picked this up last night and it was really good, the kinako comes in a separate pack tat the sprinkle on yourself and the kuromitsu is swirled into the vanilla ice cream.

MAY 9 IS ICE CREAM DAY!! I didn't know this until I saw it on the evening news last night.... So at 7:45 the family and I jumped into the car, headed to the nearest convenience store and bought ice cream. Mari wrote about it on her blog as well Japanese ice cream thread where to find good ice cream in Japan thread

yesterday I picked up lychee hi-chew.. yum!!

glossyp, Thank you for the information. It turns out that in addition to 10 days on Bali we are going to have one whole day on Guam as well. So we need to find places for at least two meals (breakafast and lunch).

I never thought of checking their website either. Thank you! we are going to be eating a lot of fish this week...

I don't think I have ever seen Abba's, I did a quick search and it is in the location of the former Corky & Lenny's, I wonder how long it has been there.... I don't remember seeing it last summer and I spent quite a bit of time in the Cedar Center area. In the same article I also found this: Whole Foods Market (an upscale gourmet food market) will open its first Ohio store at the corner of Cedar and Warrensville, Rothschild reports proudly. "That section will be all new tenants." The article discusses the renovation of the whole Cedar Center area. Does anyone know anything about when whole foods will open? I will be in Cleveland for about 6 weeks this summer and would love to see it...

I don't drink alcohol so have never tasted it but I was with my husband many years ago when it was served to him and he liked it....

I have never been to Nagoya so I don't know anything about this, but: kissatens and the "morning set" from the blog watashi to Tokyo she says that in Nagoya the kissatens offer free food with the purchase of just one cup of coffee (bread and other breakfast dishes). Why doesn't this spread??

5/9: you can also drink your ayu.. ayuzake (ayu sake)

I eat it just like Jason. Just pull it apart with my hands and eat it plain with a nice cup of coffee on the side. Kona was my choice when living on Maui, but in Japan it is just too expensive...

I just picked up the new book by NHK's Tameshite Gatten and they say to get the best tasting gyoza you should boil them first and then fry them. This is the opposite of how most people do it. They say to put the gyoza into a frypan and add very hot water to half of their height, turn on the heat and boil for three minutes, then carefully holding the lid down pour the water off. Then drizzle the pan with oil and cook until they have a nice crisp crust. As to the gu or filling: For meat gyoza, you should place the meat in a bowl and add a bit of salt and soy sauce and then knead it really well, only after you have kneaded it should you add the rest of the ingredients.

that looks so good!! do you know how they season the broth?

That sounds like an ochazuke my husband would make He adds a little of everything... I prefer mine more simple and I never mix wasabi and ume, my husband loves the combination though. I like whole umeboshi in mine, but if you don't want to deal with the seeds paste should be fine.

5/7: ayu can also be deep fried in a couple of ways ayu tempura ayu furai (fried aji) ayu no karaage