Month: February 2012

I am heading to China tomorrow for the first time in some years and I just picked up my visa ...

Today while out and about, I stopped in at my favorite soba restaurant for lunch. Honke Owariya was founded in ...

I was delighted last night that we finally got some snow, the first real snowfall in Kyoto this winter. I ...

I somehow got a hankering for Beef Stroganoff, which I have never made and don't recall eating since I was ...

Disappointment: I am a big fan of Shoyeido (松栄堂), a purveyor of incense in Kyoto established in 1705. I usually ...