Category: Eating
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Best ramen in the world
Traditional Japanese Curtains for you to konk heads with departing customer Naomi and I have been to this place, I dunno, four, five times already in the last two months, and considering we don’t go out very often, it probably means we like the food a lot. Plastic models of dishes to help you decide…
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Happy birthday miyagi.sg
I was looking for a picture of a birthday cake to accompany this post, and stumbled upon the colourful and tasty looking Flickr stream of Pink Cake Box. So, um, happy birthday, blog! And cake for everyone! For anyone who’s interested in how it all began: 2 April 2004.
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Super-seize me
Willard Scott as the first Ronald McDonald In Japan, Ronald McDonald is known as Donald McDonald. Name and other variations aside, he’s probably the most famous clown on the planet. While doing research (yeah right) on a job we were doing, we came across several bits of trivia which were quite funny. Like the time…
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And China will rise some more
Never in my thirty something years of being Chinese have I experienced such a surge in everything Chinese. On the 2nd day of the New Year, Naomi and I went and visited her Mum, as is decreed by the Keepers of Chinese Custom (on the First Day, you visit with the husband’s family, on the…
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With a bang (and a slight dent)
I wished a total stranger Happy New Year in Mandarin, even though he had just crashed into the front passenger door of my car right after he rode his bicycle on the pavement against the flow of traffic that was on the road outside the entrance to my apartment blocks. In response, he said, “対ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·æ–°å¹´å¿«ä¹å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·“…