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Chawanmushi

This is one of my favorite appetizers in Japan.

My chawanmushi

Have always loved it even while I was back home in the Philippines.  Each time we would go to a Japanese restaurant, I would never fail to order this one.

“Chawan”  is the word for tea cup … and “Musu or mushi” [...]

Sweet potato bread

Back in the Philippines, “Ube” is the purple yam, that is so famous as a dessert, jam or ice-cream.   I love it  and the closest “food” that I can get is this Japanese bread – with the purple sweet potato or in Japanese, “Murasaki Imo”, literally translated as Purple Potato.  Hontou ni “oishii [...]