While I was browsing Hakone town in Japan, I came across this little shop selling senbei – Japanese rice crackers. They sold mostly traditional rice crackers, plain or with sesame or seaweed and I bought lots of little packets as gifts for friends. It was delicious! Crispy, not too salty and overall yum! But what [...]
On the train heading back to Tokyo, I set about eating a fresh dorayaki – red bean pancake – I’d purchased from a store in Hakone. It was a very popular store selling a lot of Japanese traditional cakes and pastries. I just have no idea what it is called but its logo was a [...]
One of the interesting foods I came across while touring Hakone, Japan was this – Kuro Tamago – black eggs boiled in volcanic sulfur water. This is something unique to Owakudani in Hakone, Japan where volcanic activity is still rife and sulfur is still mined. Anyway, since the signs everywhere said that we MUST TRY [...]