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Bakery Run Kanazawa
It turns out that there are a lot of bakeries in Kanazawa. A lot of really good bakeries. Will do our best to search out the sublime, but there are the constraints of time and the physical toll of intense morning carbs (but hey, I’m on holidays right). Today was Donq, where I had a curry bun with soft boiled egg inside (how they got it perfectly done inside a doughnut shell, I’ll never be able to fathom). Kai is growing up fast. He picked both his targets (a cheese flatbread and a sweet bean doughnut) and knocked them down without much help from papa, even though I was begging for some of that tasty looking doughnut.
Pool Morning
Family Reunited
After 26 hours of travel, I finally made it to Kanazawa. It was great to see everyone, and it’s like we didn’t miss a beat. Of course most of the first 16 hours have been about food 🙂 Some of the best sushi of my life was here.
Reports from Chika
With the kids in Japan, I am dependent on Skype and media care packages from Chika. Now I know how the grandparents feel when they only get the remote access. Can’t wait to all be back together in a few weeks.
Japan | Tokyo | Bakery Run Japan Style
I had found Famille bakery last visit to Japan in December 2010, and now with Kai as my trusted partner, we ventured for some local exploration. The raisin bun has a secret surprise – cream cheese in the middle. Oishi! But I am hooked on the milk cream bun.
Japan | Tokyo | Baby Meetup
It seems once you start the baby process, there is a gravity which seems to draw all attention and activities to babies. Which in this case was a celebration of our friend Takeshi’s brand new baby boy Zen. We started at the baby cafe to be followed with some prerequisite equipment shopping.
Japan | Kobe | A Nice Visit
It was a quick arrangement to see my friend in Kobe — little did I know that in the top of the heatwave in July his students were in classes and exams so he could not get away for a brief lunch meeting somewhere in Osaka or Kyoto. So he invited me to come down and stay overnight. It was a fun journey navigating from the main railway station in Osaka to the smaller local line to his university using what little Japanese I could muster. And I did make it on time. After spending time with some of Prof. Sato’s students, we went to a nice sake restaurant for a traditional Japanese meal, and some interesting sake — it had been simmer with roasted eel. In fact, it was quite tasty.
Japan | Kanazawa | A Trip to the Beach
While we decided to do a city excursion to Taipei instead of a beach trip to Okinawa, it didn’t mean there would be no coastal activities at all. After all, Kanazawa is on the West Coast of Japan. So after a 30 minute drive, we found ourselves at a quaint seaside spot with some restaurants and shops and then an overpass across the highway to the beach. Kai had the most fun of all I think, but I was a close second.
Japan | Kanazawa | Settling In
It is a wonderful feeling being at the start of a long vacation when reality is beyond the horizon, and the question is what are we going to do over the next 24 hours. Mainly it is focused on eating and drinking.
We had a great lunch at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art yesterday, with fresh cold pumpkin soup and a huge selection of meats and salads.
In the evening, Chika and I left Kai with his grandmother to put him to bed, and we went to explore on of the local isakayas (basically, a place for drinks and small plates). It was excellent — both the food (sushi, snow crab tempura) and the drinks (beer and sake flight for me and plum wine flight for Chika).
