Welcome to my page!!

I'm gonna share my and our experiences in NY as Japanese from today. For me life in NY is so much fun!! Many things are different from Japan and many things are the same... lol
Most of topics might be food though...
I hope you can enjoy:)
今日からニューヨークでの日本人としての体験を書いて行こうと思います。ニューヨークでの生活は…楽しすぎる!!日本との違いや共通点がいっぱい!!ほとんどが食べ物関連になりそうですが、楽しんでいただけたらと思います^^

Jul 31, 2011

El Bulli ~Cooking in Progress~ at Film Forum NYC

Today I went to Film Forum to see "El Bulli ~Cooking in Progress~".
It was the documentary film about restaurant El Bulli.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN0eshtAxYA
I saw the news that they had the last day of restaurant yesterday.

The movie was so interesting. It was not about the cooking I know. And it was happening in not in the kitchen but in the labo. So it was all about food but chemistry.
I really liked to see when they are experimenting combination of flavor, taste and texture with many kinds of ingredients. And they tried many Japanese things too which made me happy and also more interesting. For example, Yuzu, Kaki(fruit), green tea, umeboshi plum, and even oblato(which is thin layer of paper which is edible).
(when I tried to find the explanation of oblato, only in Spanish and Japanese there was in wikipedia... http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obulato which is funny...)
I liked chemistry experiment class in university so it reminded me those labo memories. Their recipe testing was exactly like that.
And while they were testing not only chefs but there were scent sommelier and other people. They spoke in Spanish, French and English. But everyone was talking about food together. That was amazing.

And after when they moved from labo to restaurant, another world was there.
There were many interns and servers. More strict mood and chemists became chefs.
All of their plates were not like food but art. Looked amazing and entertaining.
That was awesome to watch what they look like in big screen even I couldn't try the taste.
Actually there was a guest who did intern there Mr. Paras Shah (Sous Chef, La Fonda del Sol).
And he gave us some tome for Q&A and he said that even intern couldn't taste their food.
But they have lecture time for interns and good to learn what they do for just an idea for future.
If you want you can apply intern from the website of El Bulli he said...
Watching movie was enough for me but if you are interested in... lol

I wasn't sure that was what I really want to eat but I was really happy to see the passion for food in this film and the possibility of food. All of chefs were so different but they were so serious and at the same time they were enjoying their job. That is what we need whatever you do I think...

Last time I went to Film Forum I watched "Kings of Pastry" and tonight was "El Bulli"... I think I have foodie connection with this theater... :)



There was long line even it was 30 min before.

I tried to go the day before but it was sold out so I took the ticket for tonight. 
But also tonight it was sold out again... !!!

He was the guest chef...

After movie I went to Washington square... it was nice night:)

Jul 30, 2011

Something at Bryant Park

Last Wednesday I passed near by Bryant Park. And I heard really loud sounds and voice from there.
So I just went there to check what was going on. And I found these...
There were women and men playing football together!! And there was vip seat and there were so many fancy food!! lol I didn't know what was it but when I posted this picture on facebook one of my friend told me that it was the event? for one of popular video game.... Still I don't know what was it but it is fun to find something is happening in the city always!!










Edible Brooklyn event Good Beer

Last Tuesday I went to BAM for volunteering event of Edible Brooklyn "Good Beer".
http://www.ediblemanhattan.com/events/edible-brooklyn-edible-manhattans-good-beer/
I worked there from 4 to 7pm and enjoyed the food and beer after that:)
Actually there weren't many things to do. I just helped some venders to set up the stations. And after that was just standing at the exit to avoid people who has no ticket sneak in the venue.
I am not big fun of beer so I could try a few kinds of them but if you like beer, that would be amazing chance to try so many kinds of beer from everywhere around NY.
Also there were many restaurants came to introduce their food too. Even pizza truck and kimchi taco truck were there... I prefer the food when we had wine event at BAM but still I enjoyed a lot.

But what I couldn't believe was that the night before the event I charged my battery of camera for that night. And when I tried to take a picture, camera didn't work.... I forgot to put my battery back in the camera!!!! So I couldn't take all the pictures I wanted... but still I had phone so I took some of them... so the quality is not good...:( I hope you can get some of image from them... :)























Jul 26, 2011

Brooklyn Bowl

Last weekend I went to my friend's birthday party at Brooklyn Bowl.
It was like old bowling place.
I really liked there!!!
And food there is Blue Ribbon!! So all of them tasted so good!!!
And after that we moved to Radgast Hall  Biergarten.
Walking in Williamsburg is always fun even it was 40 ℃!! lol