Maybe once or twice a week I get to eat out somewhere, although as inflation and shrinkflation impact everyone, this is becoming less frequent. In the last few years I have made as mental list of the best food. What I look for is good flavors and decent sized portions. So below are some of …
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🥐 Tokyo’s Best Pain au Chocolate?
Tokyo has an impressive range of bakeries offering pain au chocolat, from French artisanal patisseries to inventive Japanese adaptations. This guide compares some of the city’s most renowned spots based on key tasting elements: sweetness, gooeyness, flakiness, and chocolate quality. Use this table to plan your next pastry pilgrimage. Notes: – Ratings are based on …
Getting Passionate
Passion fruits are not the easiest things to keep all year round, they hate the really cold weather so they tend to die if left outside inn the Japanese winter. This year we kept them inside and they grew around the windows. Having fruits on them, requires timing and know how. The flowers look like …
Who is Mofu chan?
Mofu chan is a noisy, bitey, feisty annoying love bird that rules my life, or at least he likes to think he does. He looks innocent enough, but I have lots of bite marks that prove otherwise. He has many aliases. Mofuchowsky Flemicoff III is his full title, he assumed the name Mofu Mofu when …
Balcony Gardening
Trying to have a bit of outdoor greenery in your life in Tokyo is not easy, the weather is extreme here, we have a winter that’;s windy and cold and a summer that is blisteringly hot, and only a few very comfortable days in the middle. However, it’s possible. Here’s what an amateur garden looks …
Joel’s Haikus
August balcony sunrise Tokyo Pandemic Cicadas cheer Joel Marston Harvey – Aug 20th 2020
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