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Seasonal Secret
The coolest summertime cafe in Japan
Lately I’ve been dreaming of this cafe at the Hiyoshi Taisha shrine in Ōtsu. It’s been living rent-free in my head for years, because I can’t imagine anything more refreshing than sipping an iced something in an open-air cafe that sits by a rushing river…read more
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Why, Japan, Why?
Weird Ice Cream Flavors of Japan
To be fair, it’s always weird ice cream season in Japan, but as climate change stretches the unbearably hot and humid Japanese summer into October, never have we craved a nice cold cone more than we do in now-steamy <sob!> September. But maybe not these flavors…read more
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Japanese Home Cooking
Mochi-Mochi Cinnamon Buns
You may wonder why I’m posting a baking recipe when apartments don’t even have ovens! But one thing I love eating in Japan is the “mochi-mochi” breads that use rice flour or tapioca flour to make them satisfyingly chewy, like the beloved rice cakes eaten at festivals. This recipe is the closest I’ve come so far to recreating it in my secret underground lair outside Japan!…read more
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Book Review & Giveaway:
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
This wartime tale is set in Seattle at the time the US government sent all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to internment camps. Told from the perspective of a Chinese-American boy who befriends a Japanese-American girl and a Black jazz musician, it brings to life what it was like to live in that racially-divided community in a time of war. All the main characters…read more
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Jonelle Patrick writes novels set in Japan, produces the monthly Japanagram newsletter, and blogs at Only In Japan and The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had
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