• Food

    Okonomiyaki

    If you read the post about our trip to Japan, you know that we ate some very delicious okonomiyaki in Japan (And also raised our glasses to our marriage with Japanese businessmen at an okonomiyaki restaurant, but that’s another story…). Okonomiyaki are a type of savory Japanese pancake. There are two styles of it: Hiroshima okonomiyaki and Osaka okonomiyaki. Back in 2017, I didn’t know this dish at all. However, I had set a goal to teach Kevin how to cook, and as motivation, I lend him a Japanese cookbook. Kevin was so motivated that he even marked recipes with sticky notes. In the end, the choice fell on Osaka…

  • Travel

    Japan (2019)

    The question why we wanted to Japan doesn’t need to be asked here. As anime fans, such a trip is practically a must. Although we thought we already knew Japan well thanks to the media, the country had some surprises in store for us. What also made our trip to Japan special was the occasion: It was our honeymoon. Where better to spend our honeymoon than in Japan? Completely exhausted after a long wedding celebration, my parents took us to the Weimar train station on August 31, 2020, the day after our wedding, from where we went to Frankfurt Airport. Several hours later, finally sitting on the plane (a Boeing…