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Whenever I call my sister, I always pump her for details on what she had for dinner. If it’s fish I want to know: What kind of fish? Grilled? With what on the side? Who made it? I need to reconstruct her meal in my mind so I can internally drool at the tastiness that I’m missing out on.

I really like German food and we eat a lot of meals centered around bread, but sometimes I just want rice and some Japanese flavors. I told Niko that before the summer is over and the beergardens close, I really want to eat steckerlfish with a bowl of rice and some grated daikon and shoyu. Especially if it’s mackerel.

I had read a food blog where someone made jaga-imo miso-ni, which is basically a Japanese recipe for potatoes braised in miso, and I started craving miso. Unfortunately, the last of the miso had to be thrown out a few weeks ago when our fridge broke and I hadn’t gotten around to buying a new pack. It’s on the top of my to do list for tomorrow.

So for dinner tonight, he had his thing and I had warm soba with some gyoza. The soba sauce came in a bottle, the gyoza was frozen, but it was enough to cover the craving. Until I started looking at some food photos from Japan…

plastic display crepes in harajuku
japanese hamburger steak in kyoto
sushi at a sushi-ya near my grandmother’s house in yokohama
takoyaki in osaka
melon soda at mos burger in kyoto
soy milk donuts at nishiki market in kyoto