Dare I say these tastes better than the Reese peanut butter cups? Especially because you can pack it with as much peanut butter filling as you want AND you can use the best quality chocolate you have. Although I do prefer to use the Cadbury melts rather than Lindt – Lindt still tastes awesome but…
No one can doubt that the Japanese have an eye for detail and are the Kings and Queens of all things kawaii. Floresta Nature Doughnuts have taken kawaii to the next level with their famous adorable animal doughnuts – you can find them as pigs, cats, frogs and seals. Originally from Nara but they have opened…
There is a store in Kyoto called Menbakaichidai where they sell fire ramen. When they say fire they don’t mean that it’s chilli or some pansy little flame. No they really mean fire where the flames reach the ceilings when a pot of hot oil is poured onto the ramen. We came during non peak…
When I was in Japan 3 years ago I would pass Tsujiri so often and it wasn’t until a Japanese girl said it is one of her favourite shops that I started taking notice. Everytime I passed it there would be lines from the top of the stairs all the way to the streets and being a…
Although Ichiran is a really big franchise where the lines out the door were filled with tourists, I’ve seen too many posts about it and I was intrigued (especially for the super hermit in me). This is one for the loners – the ones that just want to sit in peace and quiet with no human…
I thought I gave my work mates food poisoning when I bought this peanut butter panna cotta to work as it did not sit well with me at all :( The next day everyone was fine and it wasn’t until someone asked me what was in them that it finally clicked. “What’s inside the panna cotta?”…
After baking some chocolate and potato chip cookies, I suspected the original recipe was adapted from the New York Times recipe. The humble chocolate chip cookie – who knew there were so many things that affected something so simple. Like resting your cookie dough for at least 24 hours changes the texture and flavour of the cookie. Biting…