by ila on November 17, 2009
A recent article that I found on Ameba (the Japanese equivalent of Wordpress, but with more celebrity bloggers) featured a ranking of popular donburis (bowls).
The overall number 1 was, and will always be the ever-popular gyu-don, or beef bowl, but the data itself was pretty interesting.
Most people, like busy salary-men (office drones) and students like gyu-don because it’s easy and quick to eat (literally something that you can shovel into your mouth on the go — the Yoshinoya empire is built upon this single dish). And men tend to enjoy heaty donburis like katsu-don and ten-don.
Women, on the other hand, tend to enjoy donburis with a little extra flair, like negitoro-don (tuna-and-scallions) and loco-mocos.
The same goes for us two, Don and I. Everytime we go to Fukada, our favorite casual Japanese eatery, I order the spicy tuna bowl, which is the California-nized cousin of the negitoro-don. And Don always gets the oyako-don or the katsu-don — something heftier. I guess boys will be boys, and girls will be girls, regardless of where they are.
read the full nom →
by ila on November 10, 2009
Wow, it’s been so long since my last post (10 days!!).
Truth is, I’m not very motivated to write or cook as of late. Foodblogging has always been a stress relief for me, a creative outlet of some sorts. With all those excellent local restaurant bloggers and fantastic recipe bloggers out there, I’m not sure if this is really the thing for me anymore. Plus, I’ve been really sluggish after work, so dinner’s been super simple and not very blog-worthy.
So what I do to purge myself of day-to-day stress — lately, watching a lot of Japanese tv shows on Youtube (watch from 5:03), crushing on tall, lanky men, and reading online comics — just being a blorp and forgetting about cooking, really. I don’t even go out anymore because when my friends want to go out, I have to work. When I’m done with work, I’m spent. I know, I’m awesomely sad.
Eventually, lazy lazy days of watching tv on a laptop and reading online comics about fat cats become, well, old.
read the full nom →
by ila on October 29, 2009
I get a lot of email questions about where I like to go to for Japanese food in the OC.
uni hand roll @ angotei
Okay, well, more like 3 emails, but that’s a lot for me. I get super excited when I receive a comment on a blog post, how can I contain myself when I get an actual email (that has nothing to do with work)!? But enough about me and my lonely email life, here’s three places Don and I frequent: a traditional sushi place, a sushi roll place, and a cooked fish place.
read the full nom →
