HK rugby team offer hope to those in need in Japan
Posted on May 19, 2012, Saturday SUSHI MAKING: Cade Lee, Salom Yiu and Keith Robertson rolling a maki sushi together with two local Japanese volunteers at an activity organised by Second Harvest Japan for victims of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami. KUCHING: Ahead of their all-important HSBC Asian 5 Nations clash with Japan, the HSBC-sponsored Hong Kong mens rugby team took time out from their training to engage in a community activity, offering hope and courage to residents of Ishinomaki, one of the most seriously affected cities in Japan by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Organised by Second Harvest Japan, the countrys national food bank, five members of the Hong Kong team, Cado Lee, Salom Yiu, Charles French, Mark Wright and Keith Robertson joined in with a group of local volunteers in Tokyo to make maki sushi rolls, which were taken by Second Harvest Japan staff later last night to Ishinomaki
Westport Asian Restaurant Delivers to Weston
Chef Paul Chung, co-owner of Bistro 88 in the Saugatuck neighborhood of Westport, prepares a sushi roll.
Restaurant Brings Flavors of Asia to Westport
Chef Paul Chung, co-owner of Bistro 88 in the Saugatuck neighborhood of Westport, prepares a sushi roll.
Susan Granger's review of 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi'
Considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef, 85 year-old Jiro Ono is the proprietor of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat restaurant that’s tucked into the subterranean arcade under a Tokyo office building, near the Ginza subway station.
Globe-trotting gastronomy: In search of sushi perfection in Japan
‘Should micro-cress not be considerably smaller than this?” I opine, staring down at the arguably macro vegetation crowning my prawn and abalone salad in a swanky Kyoto dining-room. A notionally rhetorical question which nevertheless causes my companions to bust various guts in response. With not an ounce of self-awareness intact, it seems, I’ve been struck down by a case of ber-gastro-poncery something it will take more than a few of my signature ketchup sandwiches back home to relieve.
M’s enjoy trip to Japan, but apparently didn’t pack bats – Fri, 30 Mar 2012 PST
March 30, 2012 in Sports Art Thiel Associated Press photo Justin Smoak watches the flight of his solo homer that accounted for Mariners only run in 4-1 loss to the Oakland Athletics inTokyo. (Full-size photo) TOKYO Time togo.
Review: "Jiro Dreams of Sushi"
Jiro Ono and Yoshikazu Ono make sushi in the delectable documentary “Jiro Dreams of Sushi.” (Magnolia Pictures) If you can land one of the 10 seats at Sukiyabashi Jiro, a tiny Tokyo restaurant in a subway corridor, and if you’re willing to pay a king’s ransom, you can savor what may be the world’s finest sushi.
ToDo ToDay: Sushi Food Porn!
Sukiyabashi Jiro is underground, nestled into the wall of a drab Tokyo subway station. The narrow sushi bar seats only 10. The bathroom is outside the restaurant, down the subway corridor
Extreme spring training: an outdoor adventure in Phoenix and beyond
Hiking the Peralta Trail. The author and his girlfriend at Bario Cafe
Santa Barbara Native to Receive Black Belt in Aikido From Aikido World Headquarters in Japan
SANTA BARBARA, CA–(Marketwire -03/27/12)- On April 07, 2012, Andy Cranmer, a local man, is due to receive his first degree black belt in the Japanese martial art Aikido. The certificate will be arriving from the Aikido World Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, which is overseen by the grandson of the founder of Aikido