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Audrey Kawasaki – New work from solo show in Japan

Audrey Kawasaki – New work from solo show in Japan

One of our favourite contemporary artists, Audrey Kawasaki is having her first solo show in Japan. You’d think, as famous as she is and a name like Kawasaki – she’d already been having shows there. But alas, she is based in L.A. Her show is going to be at Space Yui in Aoyama, Tokyo. If [...]

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Prepare for Swine Flu, with fashionable masks

Prepare for Swine Flu, with fashionable masks

The Japanese have always had a thing about masks, from the elaborate theatrical kabuki masks to the traditional  oni masks that keep away bad spirits (and also seem to end up as common tattoo designs in the west). More recently though – it’s all about face masks that keep away nasty germs and viruses. You [...]

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Cheap, cheerful and bound to get more crowded – Sydney’s Chinatown

Cheap, cheerful and bound to get more crowded – Sydney’s Chinatown

This is out second post in a short while about Chinatown – but we love it, and we have Anna from Morsels & Musings dishing it out. In Sydney, these three Haymarket hotspots don’t need anymore highlighting. Their already huge fan base is enough to bring you to tears when you’re starving and fighting for [...]

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Miso Udon with Prawns

Super Simple Recipe: Japanese Miso Udon (Noodle Soup) with Prawns

So its still goddamn freezing in sunny old Sydney, sometimes you just don’t want to go out for dinner as you don’t want to brave the unnatural weather. But you DO want to have some nice warming winter food, don’t you? And you don’t want to spend very long making it? Well then – here [...]

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Beer for eels please

Beer for eels please

Marketed for eel lovers in Japan, a new beer has been launched to quench the thirst for the opressively warm Japanese summer. Apparently the beer is very complimentary for the sticky and slightly sweet flavours of the unagi (eel). Translated below is some of the reasoning behind Miyashita’s Sake Brewery’s newest endevour… Unagi is traditionally [...]

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