The Japanese culture heavily embraces Buddhism and thus Buddhist teachings. One of the concepts that was derived from its teachings is the acceptance of all things ‘imperfect, impertinent and incomplete’, also known as ‘wabi sabi‘ in Japanese. Wabi sabi is an aesthetic that considers imperfect things beautiful, such as an unfinished, rough or unsymmetrical object, [...]
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I always have trouble finding restaurants to dine at on Friday nights. Being as indecisive as I am (and the rest of my friends too), we always tend to leave things to ‘fate’. There was one week when we finally decided on a restaurant only to find out when we arrived that the menu has [...]
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Nama Nama is a Japanese cafe that has recently opened along Spring St just overlooking Treasury and Fitzroy Gardens. Being a sibling to the popular Izakaya Den together with Hihou, a Japanese bar just above it, I expected great and wonderful things during our meal to which it delivered. Nama Nama is only open for [...]
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I’m an avid lover of ‘fun’ meals where cooking or serving food involves more active participation from customers (such as hotpot or Korean bbq where it’s mostly DIY) or a meal where we get to watch some sort of ‘show’ in front of us. The latter can be said for teppanyaki restaurants as talented chefs [...]
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Before I went to Japan at the beginning of this year I was for the most part an izakaya newbie. Basically I hadn’t really had much experience in drinking beer/sake and enjoying skewers and other nibbles at Japanese styled sake bars. Yuye and I went to a few while we were there and totally loved [...]
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One of the few things that can brighten up my day instantly is none other than unexpectedly finding a fantastic restaurant. After brief discussions in the car on the way to a friend’s house the other day, Yuye suggested “let’s just eat somewhere close and on the way”. I was going to pull over at [...]
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