Holy moley, these burgers are incredible! And not just their burgers, their service and care that they put into all the items on their menu. If you are travelling on the Chuo Line in Tokyo, do yourself a favour and stop at Mitaka station to try it for yourself!
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JET Program Reflection 9: Toasted Sandwiches
Toasted sandwiches, toasted sammies, toasties, jaffles. There are many names for the humble lunch enjoyed by people everywhere and today I’m going to give you a few recipes that are my favourites since I miss having a toasted sandwich press in Japan.
JET Reflection 7: カルピス
Besides melon Fanta, this is my favourite thing to drink in Japan. I have set myself the goal to try as many of the different flavours of Calpis (or Calpico) as possible, so when I see a new one I buy it and try it. I’m going to give ratings for the ones that I’ve…
JET Reflection 3: Baking in a rice cooker
Out of all of the apartments in Japan we were looking at prior to arrival, only one had an oven. We didn’t go for that apartment as it was built in the 1970s and you really want to avoid living somewhere that was built prior to the 1980s or even 2011 if you can avoid…
Covid day two: Kiwi Christmas Roast
What makes a kiwi Christmas? It’s an odd thing because traditionally Christmas was celebrated in the northern hemisphere where it was winter. As a result the foods which are eaten around Christmas are very heavy and hot, such as the traditional roast dinner. On my Mum’s side of the family it was always roast lamb…
Whittakers 100s and 1000s Barvarian
So I was doing yoga on Tuesday and my mind was wandering. The Whittakers 100s and 1000s chocolate had been back for a couple of weeks, its last release was in 2014, and I was struck by the idea of trying to making a barvarian dessert from my tried and true recipe. This recipe I…
Isolation day 29: Miso Ramen
Here is my take on homemade miso ramen. The recipe serves one for dinner or two for lunch and only requires the use of one pot. Essential Ingredients Boiling water 1 200g pack of ramen noodles (your choice of thickness and style) 1 egg 2 sachets of instant miso soup (I prefer Marukome brand) Soy…
Isolation day 17: World Foods
I have left New Zealand on three separate trips to various places around the world and managed to visit 15 different countries. I spent the longest amount of time in Japan, followed by the USA, where I was on a STEM based school trip, and most of the other countries I have visited were on…
Isolation day 8: Corn Chowder
The weather has been very changeable over this first week in isolation. There has been several days where it was pouring with rain, a couple where it was sunny and warm, yesterday was really misty and today its overcast and grey. Weather on the wintry side is when soup is one of my meals of…
Isolation day 4: Diet woes and a bad segway into discussing coronavirus
At the start of the term in January I decided it was time. I had been gaining a kilogram or two every year I had been teaching and it was time to do something about it. I tried a couple of apps and decided on the one I liked then began kilojoule counting. This was…
Eclectic Hobbies 