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One Example

There are modern day explorers–culinary Cousteaus–who roam cities, exploring different cuisines one adventure/restaurant at a time. One such culinary explorer who is eating his way through Tokyo’s ramen shops one shop at a time is Nate at Ramenate. His blog offers a great glimpse into one of Japan’s culinary treasures, ramen, and offers plenty of ramen porn for you to salivate over.

Other such explorers exist in CA as well, such as the Great Taco Hunt blog and others.

Finished Product

Kirala, is a Japanese Restaurant in Berkeley, CA where I learned to appreciate seafood. Prior to my first bite of Sushi there, I had never been fond of Seafood and barely ate any at all except for the occasional Fillet-o-Fish (does that even count as seafood?). Nearly 11 years later, seafood (particularly fish) makes up a large portion of my diet.

It didn’t take long before I became a regular at Kirala and the one dish I almost always ordered was the “Butterfish” or Miso Marinated Gindara (a.k.a, Black Cod or Butterfish), a dish Kirala and their robata masters had perfected. Since moving out of the Bay Area, I’ve been searching for a worthy equivalent to Kirala’s Butterfish and I was starting to lose hope until I decided to attempt to create my own using some extra Gindara we had from nabemono the night before. » Read the rest of this entry «

A recent trip to Japan solidified my love for (traditional) Japanese Cuisine. What fascinates me about the cuisine is its paradoxical nature–it’s simple yet complex. The dishes are presented in a simple, almost zen-like manner and although a dish may appear very straightforward, the flavors are often deep and sophisticated. The focus on presentation and pleasing the senses along with the precision and various rules or traditions that govern the cuisine really appeal to me as well. » Read the rest of this entry «