In the Shandong Province of Northern China you’ll find street vendors with shao bing breads piled high. Women buy their daily supply to bring home to feed their families. In this wheat dependent area, rice is not the common carb, this bread is. And it’s these flaky and chewy flatbreads that define the comfort foods at home. Filled with long-stewed meats, pickled radishes and cucumbers, fresh herbs...
A memorable meal on vacation doesn’t have to break the bank and it doesn’t have to be gourmet or even in a nice restaurant. It might be a simple meal in a non-descript location, yet it will stay with you long after the trip is over. For me, this meal was in the Asakusa Metro in Japan. I might have walked by. I might have chosen another exit of the Metro and carried on into Asakusa. But that morning,...
When telling friends about my forthcoming visit to Japan, their immediate reactions related to Tokyo and Kyoto. My husband and I already had plans to go to those favored and well-known cities as well as Hakone and Nara, but as the trip approached, I had the increasing urge to venture somewhere else. Somewhere a little different that wasn’t found on all the tourist maps. We had already purchased a...
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put on our backpacks and started walking. After about ten minutes, the city had been left behind, the streets became narrow and the buildings appeared historic. My hopes started to rise but I still tried to prepare myself incase it wasn’t what I had thought.