Umami Mart Gift Guide
Postcard

Postcard from Shanghai: Ci Fan

*Yoko is in China for 10 days! And with no access to Facebook or Instagram, she is sending us photos the old school way β€” via postcards. We’ll be featuring these snapshots from Yoko in Chengdu and Shanghai...

Casa de Kei

Casa de Kei in Kauai

Let's be real: when my brother Keisuke said he would join us for our First Annual Kauai Trip, I hoped (really hard) that he would cook for us. Ah hell, we all did. Have you seen Casa de Kei? His midnight creations are totally...

The Forest Feast

The Forest Feast: Pear Pancakes

Even though it's starting to become spring, it's still cold in some parts!Β  We were recently in NYC and since Jonathan's family has a house in Vermont, we took a group of friends there for the weekend. We cooked big meals together, played snow football...

Skankynavia

Skankynavia: The Royal CafΓ© (CPH)

I'm so over normality. I'm over generic cafes, mediocre restaurants and bleh bars with all their effortless interiors, lazy service, boring menu offerings and pointless existence besides making money (in these days: little). The next time I walk into a cream...