Japan

Two writers on The Eaten Path (Zach Mann and Vicky Lai) have written about their travels to Japanese archipelago and all of the food, drink and adventure therein.

Stories from Japan include tastes of flame-cooked bonito in Kochi City, a 300-year-old soba restaurant in Kyoto, a mountainside cottage serving a cross of Japanese and Southern comfort food, a firsthand account from Tokyo’s famous Tsukiji Fish Market and a particularly hearty yarn composed of Japanese ramen.

2012: The Meals That Were

by James Boo January 8, 2013

Happy Ongoing U.S. Congressional Failure Day New Year! In 2012, The Eaten Path entered its fifth year of food and travel. It’s hard to believe, but easy to stomach. As Zach and I work to push stories onto bigger pages – his into the Creative [...]

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Whether the Cherry Blossoms Are in Bloom

by Zach Mann March 9, 2012

I leaned my head against the Shinkansen window, snacking on train station fast food. Japan passed by at 300 kilometers per hour, while I counted golf ranges and Ferris wheels at an astonishing clip. Then the track doglegged, and there was Mount Fuji, emerging from [...]

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“It Belongs in a Museum!”

by Zach Mann February 27, 2012

The city of Yokohama boasts the second biggest population in Japan, but looking out the Shinkansen window, I never saw Tokyo end or Yokohama begin. The buildings lost their height and their charm, transforming more into suburbia with every stop. Meanwhile, uniformed men checked our [...]

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The Shikoku Mountain Blues

by Zach Mann February 17, 2012

About half-an-hour up the mountain from Okawa is a house on stilts, balancing over a ravine, abandoned. A handful of rickety structures lean into the hillside nearby, the homes of old hermits who tend their own rice paddies and manage to survive without driving to [...]

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Driving on the Left Side of the Pacific Ocean

by Zach Mann February 9, 2012

The first time Mele and I stepped into a car in Japan was at the Kochi City train station. Josh met us in front of the Anpanman Terrace, and after we awkwardly waved hello at each other from two feet away, our host led us [...]

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Boxed In

by Vicky Lai November 6, 2009

There’s something to be said for having everything in its right place. Organisation with regard to food is usually done in two places: in the cupboard and in the refrigerator. Boxes are used in both, but more so for dry foods like cereal or mac [...]

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Welcome to the Shoyu Week

by Vicky Lai October 9, 2009

Lunch in Anglo-Saxon offices is usually quick. Scores of articles in lifestyle magazines have been written for busy working men and women on how to make their lunch a bit more exciting than the sandwich bought from around the corner. Nevertheless, when readers are just [...]

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Tokyo Masala

by Vicky Lai September 11, 2009

The nice thing about food places on the second floor is that they tend to feel like someone’s living room or attic: automatically homey, no matter what craziness is going on in the streets below. While walking through the unending streams of people in the [...]

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Diamonds Are Forever. Sashimi Is Today.

by Vicky Lai August 28, 2009

A diamond is, on its face, just a rock. Of course, it is a very hard rock, but it’s essentially a solid mass of carbon (also the main ingredient of graphite, the mineral used to make pencil tips). After the rock is cut, it becomes [...]

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