Food and Travel
By Kitchyart on 25 August, 2015
I have a few friends who love ramen as much as I do and we fondly call ourselves “Ramen Faces”. We exchange photos of our ramen experiences in social media and talk about our cravings to each other. It’s been raining nonstop for almost a week now since we got back from our Japan trip …read »
Food and Travel
By Kitchyart on 3 March, 2014
Last month, my family took another trip and we went to Japan. We hadn’t travelled to Japan together in ages, so it was an exciting trip for all of us. Osaka and Kyoto seem to be popular tourist destinations in the past couple of years, it’s great that we made it during lean season, which …read »
Food and Travel
By Anonymous Paul on 2 August, 2013
Kyoto is ground zero for many outstanding establishments featuring kaiseki ryori. Kaiseki, in simplified description, is not just a multi-course meal, but a real art form perfected over centuries. Many chefs nowadays do their own modern twists and interpretations of the style but Yoshimi Tanigawa’s Kichisen, a revered Kyoto institution, focuses on serving kaiseki in …read »
Food and Travel
By Anonymous Paul on 4 July, 2013
We headed out on another day-trip thereabouts twenty minutes out of Kyoto via the JR line. Arashiyama is an extremely popular tourist destination and has been for over a thousand years… literally. It does feel sort of touristy but not to an extent that it puts you off. The place still has an authentic charm …read »
Food and Travel
By Anonymous Paul on 26 June, 2013
Kyoto is beautiful; it’s people friendly and refined in manner. There’s a relaxed, college town feel to the whole place and the urban planning is such that structures go up only to a certain height (not higher than the Imperial Palace). It’s littered with temples, shrines and castles. A few integrated even in the city …read »
Food and Travel
By Anonymous Paul on 20 June, 2013
Or eating…to be more precise. We arrived in Kyoto in the afternoon and there wasn’t enough time to go to any of the temples then; cutoff for visitors is usually 4 or 5pm. So after dropping our bags off the hotel we set off straight to Nishiki Market. A 400 year old food street in …read »