* Top recommendations Tokyo Gardens/Parks Food Misc Osaka Food Hair Stylist Grace Alley – Ask for TK, he speaks English and worked in San Francisco for a little while. He is so gentle and friendly and a cut and color is very affordable. Plus is the Udon spot is in the same neighborhood, so I […]
Ok, so after tons of precious wasted rice trying to tweak the recipe for the Tiger machine, we’ve run out and come to a conclusion. But first, lemme walk ya through what happened. The very first time we tested the original recipe that comes in the machine manual, but we found that the texture was […]
Why We Got a Headlamp When we first brought Kaka home, it was nearing wintertime, so we wound up walking her in the dark alot, using our phones’ flashlight to guide our way. After a Costco run, we found some really affordable Duracell headlamps, thinking it’d be a better alternative and also a useful emergency […]
Welcome back to our Oyaki experiment! Last time we talked about how we had discovered the discrepancy between Japanese All Purpose (AP) flour, called chuurikiko, and American AP flour. The American King Arthur AP flour we used has a higher protein content of 11.7% compared to the 9% typical of Japanese AP flour. In our […]
As we’re wrapping up the bulk of our planning, I realized that there were a couple of crucial parts of trip planning that caught me by surprise when working on our budget and thought that those would be good to share for those who are also going to start their own adventure. They might be […]
Ever consider scuba diving? Do it. But carefully consider where you take your certification course, it can make all the difference! We choose Maui because we knew it would be idyllic warm water and the island is renowned for diving. While diving in warm water will require us to later do a cold water conversion, […]
