July 12, 2012
Out of all the tea plantations I went to during my trip, Castleton seemed to...
July 5, 2012
"What is different about the Junpana tea estate, from all the other tea estates in...
June 28, 2012
Darjeeling reminded me of Hayao Miyazaki's Laputa: Castle in the Sky. It is hidden within...
December 15, 2011
It's that time of the year, when my well-windowed apartment gets really cold and I...
August 25, 2011
A recipe for a Japanese dessert: It takes a mizu-yokan recipe and a matcha-kuzu kanten (agar) and plates them next to one another.
August 23, 2011
Summer this year is a total washout in wet, gray and windy London, so we...
May 24, 2011
My family and I went on a flying visit to Paris again to rendez-vous with...
April 20, 2011
Being out of the country for nearly a month has a tendency to adjust a...
April 15, 2011
When visiting Chicago for the first time last year, I of course had Intelligenstia Coffee...
March 10, 2011
Step-by-step instructions on how to make Oolong Hai, or shochu iced tea.
January 20, 2011
Last week I wrote about the Hot Buttered Rum, and how it's a winter drink...
April 22, 2010
Every time I would go to someone's house in Tokyo, they would likely offer me...