typical japanese fare

there's no such thing. really.

on our first week in japan, when we met one of stella's japanese professors, we asked him what his favorite food was. he said he liked that you could get such an international variety of foods - good italian, french, american. i might have scoffed a little at that - vancouver just might be a more multicultural mecca of cuisine than tokyo. and so we embarked on a two month odyssey of japanese-only dining. every day. every meal. (ok, not quite every breakfast). and it was fantastic. it was _all good_. but then we discovered the thai place under the train track in yurakucho, and the indian place on the edge of shinjuku, and the italian place in mejiro. and they were fantastic. i mean, pasta cooked perfectly - almost like the tortelli we found in sienna, and not at all like the mushy goo you get in vancouver. for $6. i'm a convert. the professor was right. but we're still eating japanese 6 nights a week...



christmas has been full on since november 1 here (october 31 being halloween after all), but despite the decoration there isn't anything special in the air. just a slightly increased shopping frenzy, if that's even possible.












atelier de fromage in mejiro. what's coming?






this. and cheesecake.