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📝 Tokyo Ramen Festa; Sampling Japan’s Ramen Tradition
On our last day in Japan we took the train to Komazawa Olympic Park for the Tokyo Ramen Festival. Tokyo Ramen Festa, as it is known, is held every year for three weeks in the fall. Each week, 13 kinds of ramen are offered, representing a variety of traditions, and a few experiments, from across…
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📝 Kayaking Between Icebergs
Once you arrive in Ilulissat, you won’t be able to take your eyes off of the icebergs. With their massive size, surprising colors, and ever changing shapes, watching them could be a full time sport. The photographer in me wanted to get as close as possible and dreamt of what they must look like from…
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📝Touring Ilulissat’s Icebergs
The cabin where we stayed in Ilulissat was built for watching icebergs. From the deck and the dining room, we had a full view of the bay and the icebergs jostling around in it. It even had a little sun room, only a few feet wide, enough to fit a couple of chairs, covered in…
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📝 Team Soba: Learning the Art of Noodles in Sapporo
A Map Drawn in Flour: Soba vs. Udon The first thing that Taku-san, our soba instructor, taught us after we donned our aprons and washed our hands, was about the soba/udon line. He spread some fine flour on the table and with his finger drew an outline of the Japanese archipelago. He then slashed a…
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📝 Warming Up in Sapporo: Soup Curry Season
Soup curry isn’t just Sapporo’s comfort food — it’s a dish shaped by this northern climate and the people who’ve learned to thrive in it. Sapporo’s winters see temperatures regularly drop below freezing and snow accumulations that would bury a first grader. So the soup culture here is strong. And even though autumn was just…
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– Henry Miller
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