Fall is the Season for Giant Pumpkins
I will never forget where I was when I heard the story of the third biggest pumpkin in North Carolina Great video for the fall holiday season. Paul
Latin Wine Night a Wonderful Fiesta Thanks to Guests, El Toro and PengWines
Thanks to everyone who came for making our second Accidental Epicurean Event a great evening. Also a big thank you to our sponsors for the evening. Suresh and the staff of El Toro Restrobar provided a cool, calm, and casual venue for us…just the right Latin vibe we...
Little Gordon Ramsay Spoofs Big Gordon Ramsay
Hey all, As a watcher of multiple seasons of Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares I found the following clips for Caterer.com incredibly funny. The kid has the hair, the mannerisms, and most importantly the mouth. Two more videos after the jump.
People Watching on a Typical Sunday at Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park
Japan = Cute. Japan = Cosplay. Japan = Rockabilly? A Sunday stroll through Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park is unlike a visit to any park anywhere else in the world. Sure you can find couples enjoying the day quietly on blankets, dad’s playing catch with their children, hippies whipping about...
Wine Tasting Night a Great Success Thanks to Epicurious, Underground Wines, and Divine MedSpa
Our first event as “Accidental Epicurean Events” went off wonderfully last night. Another big thank you goes out to our event sponsors – Epicurious, Underground Wines, and Divine MedSpa. Helena from Epicurious, Sianne from UW, and Christine from Divine MedSpa were so relaxed, calm, and generally cool and...
Professional Baseball in Japan – Seeing the Tokyo Giants at the Tokyo Dome
Take me out to the ballgame Take me out with the crowd Buy me some yakitori and edamame…. Stepping out of the cab at the base of the massive Tokyo Dome I immediately felt the same frantic pre-game energy I knew from my childhood. It was just like...
A Brief Guide to the Kichijoji Area of greater Tokyo and Shutters Restaurant
Like Brooklyn is to Manhattan, Kichijoji is to Tokyo – with some damn good spare ribs and octopus! If you want to see real local flavour in an easily accessible Tokyo neighbourhood, take the 15 minute ride to Kichijoji. Kichijoji, in the Western area of Tokyo, is about...
The Wondrous Store (retail experience) Called Muji, Tokyo, Japan
I want to live a Muji life Actually I first encountered Muji in New York. A creative director at the ad agency I worked at was hoarding Muji notebooks that he bought in London. Being a fan of a minimalist aesthetic, Muji suited me perfectly. But while I...
My Trip to the Ghibli Museum – Mitaka, Tokyo
I hate to throw around phrases like “the Walt Disney of Japan”…but that’s the easiest way to describe Studio Ghibli for those not familiar with the Japanese cartoon studio. Ghibli has impacted not only the anime scene of Japan (a commonly held belief is that the name means...
On Our Bookshelf – The Man Who Ate Everything & Kitchen Confidential
As the site grows and readers join us, we realized a need to grow our culinary vocabulary. We felt reading more than just other food blogs would help increase our vocabulary and give us an insight into other foods, trends, chefs, locations, etc. So Joanna picked up a...
Neko JaLaLa Cat Café, Akihabara, Tokyo
A café in the heart of Tokyo provides soothing feline therapy When we were looking up wacky and wonderful things to do in Tokyo we learned about the cat cafes. In Tokyo, where flats are more like an American walk-in closet, residents are often not able to keep...
Weekly Comedy Open Mic Night
Stand up comedy in Singapore every Tuesday night. I heard about an event a couple months back thanks to a mailing list I was on, but was too chicken to attend in the end…free standup comedy lessons at Em by the River here in Singapore.
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