JAPANESE CHEESECAKE

Japanese Souffle Cheesecake  250 g cream cheese 50 g unsalted butter 100 ml fresh milk 6 egg yolks 1 Tbsp lemon juice 1 tsp vanilla extract ...

Kishimoto Japanese Kitchen and Sushi Bar, Vancouver

Carrot butterflies atop my wasabi. Details are so important You think all I do is eat out, eh? well, it certainly seems that way these last ...

Basho Cafe & Sweets, Vancouver

Matcha Latte Afternoon Tea special ($5) Upon entering Basho Cafe on East Hastings (my old teenage stomping grounds!) you are immediately tak...

Matcha Coconut Mochi (GF)

Matcha Coconut Mochi.  An excellent Japanese sweet to serve with tea or coffee. Summer's here and I have the kids full-time.   Aside fro...

A Japanese salad... and the ability to see beauty

    I always knew it would be a priority to initiate my son to the pleasures of the palate, that his “education of taste”, as we call it in ...

SUIKA, JAPANESE IZAKAYA RESTAURANT

Deluxe Suika Box:  Suika’s Appetizer sampler box. Yes, it was very good…and appetizing!  I had  to order the sampler because I love variety!...

HOSHI SUSHI, KITSILANO

Spicy Tuna Sashimi            Rating:  5/6 California Roll, Negitoro Roll, Crab Cake nigiri                        Rating: 5/6 Gyoza.  Not s...