From Japan With Love

Wifi services disrupted throughout Japan!

I am beyond frustrated!! Last year I joined Softbank to get “pocket wifi” which is mobile wifi (see the picture above). This little thing can support 10 gadgets at one time and it has been amazing….until a few days ago. I woke up the other day, turned on my computer and then turned on my little wifi gadget. Nothing. It didn’t work. My husband spent an hour on the phone with someone at Softbank fiddling with things on the computer. Sometimes it looked like it connected but it wasn’t re

I'm in love with a Kombu snack!

Recently, I've been looking to get my iodine, iron, vitamins and minerals from natural sources. So I looked into seaweed knowing it is high in iodine. You might think that because I'm in Japan I eat a lot of it....I don't. I hardly eat it because I'm not crazy about the way most of it is prepared. Yes, I sometimes make dashi (soup base) with dried kombu but really....not that often. And yes, I eat maki sushi, but again, not that often. About 2 weeks ago when we were at the supermarket we found

My sushi ring was featured on Cnn.com!

Last week I was contacted by a writer for cnn.com. She was doing an article about sushi and crafts and the article came out today! My ring is the 3rd picture. I was a bit bummed when I noticed they spelled my name wrong and there are no links to the items they feature so a few of us that were featured put the links in the comment section. http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2012/02/08/sushi-feeds-a-passion-for-crafting/?hpt=ea_r5