Aug 2018 – Within striking distance

(Mini-)Food Report: Coffee and Dessert at Hands Cafe (Naha, Okinawa, Japan)

This quick café stop in the Okinawan capital almost didn’t make the cut – in blogging terms, anyway – as I didn’t gather quite enough material to compose a proper Food Report with. That said, I’ve already rolled out a couple of (Mini-)Food Reports in recent weeks, so why not one more? (Besides, I’m sureContinue reading “(Mini-)Food Report: Coffee and Dessert at Hands Cafe (Naha, Okinawa, Japan)”

(Mini-)Food Report: A Hearty Steak Lunch at Wafū-tei (Naha, Okinawa, Japan)

Here’s a brief (Mini-)Food Report, covering a Japanese-style steak lunch I enjoyed in a restaurant at one of Naha’s major shopping malls. Welcome to Wafū-tei.

Field Report: Shikina-en Royal Garden, Naha, Japan (08 May 2018)

For the moment, let’s skip over our second full day in Okinawa – though I do hope to tell that tale in due course – and move straight into the third, when we visited a large garden that was the setting for a secondary palace of the Ryūkyūan royal family. Not a place where EastContinue reading “Field Report: Shikina-en Royal Garden, Naha, Japan (08 May 2018)”