In our recent visit to Hakone, we found a tiny restaurant named Kandachiya Soba that offers soba, buckwheat noodle. The restaurant was a full house when we arrived. Its narrow place can only fit about 10 people. It only took us less than five minutes to get a table. These days people don’t spend a …
Travelling sounds scary amid the pandemic let alone staying in a hotel, but it’s summer now, a holiday season. After restraining from travel for quite sometime, it’s not a surprise if the call to explore a new place finally surfacing. This time we followed that call and headed to Hakone. We had two staycations in …
Food is a part of hotel services that make a memorable stay. In most of traditional Japanese hotels, the room rate is often inclusive of breakfast and dinner because most of the traditional hotels are located either in secluded area or there isn’t any restaurant nearby. We have stayed in numerous tradition Japanese hotels throughout …
Summer is here. I couldn’t pen down my thought of one summer dish: unagi. Unagi is a freshwater eel that is usually cooked in glazed-grill style. It’s a common food staple in Japanese cooking. Unagi is often eaten during a hot summer day especially by end of July or day of the ox, ‘doyo no …
Most of the countries sealed their borders in March and slowly start welcoming international travellers from certain countries. Recently, EU released the news that the Japanese can travel to its member countries. We start yearning to travel again. Sadly for me, I can’t go back to Japan if I ever leave the country. Japan imposes …
After the state of emergency was lifted in Japan, most of restaurants and cafes open their doors for customers. Many could not survive and gave up the business during this pandemic time. Running food business during the pandemic is challenging. In Tsukiji outer fish market, business runs as usual. People come to dine or do …
