About food in Japan

eatrip - Movie about food and eating by a Japanese food director

The movie title represents eat + trip (食べる旅). 

In the Japanese official site of the film, it is described "Life is a trip of eat".

In the English site, it explains about the movie as "contemporary Japanese food culture documentary".

I watched the movie recently and Yes I agree with the expression.

The film is recommendable for people who are interested in Japanese food culture.

By the film director whose original profession is food coordinator, it is depicted well how Japanese people think of food and eating, what kind of emotion they have for food through interviewing various types of people, young, old, men, women, artists, ordinary people, monk, tea school master, in Tsukiji fish market, Okinawa etc. Of course in the film, you will see the scenes of Japanese food and its preparing ways. 

The film has been screened at several international film festivals such as Montreal World Film Festival (2009) and International Festival of Environmental Films in Paris (2009).

For more information, where you can watch the movie, please visit its official website:

English - About the movie click here. 

             The latest news and theater information click here. 

Japanese -http://eatrip.jp

The latest screening outside Japan is in Barcelona next week.

Asian Festival of Barcelona (Spain) official exhibited work
http://www.baff-bcn.org/en/pelicula/emergentes/eatrip
(Local time: 2nd May and 5th May 2010)

Please do not miss watching this movie, when you have a chance in your place

M & C cafe - Cafe in a book store

Maruzen (丸善) is one of the established book store in Tokyo. The flagship store is in the shopping complex Oazo, situated in a central business district and just in front of Tokyo station. The large book store occupies four floors of the shopping center and offers huge selections from books both in Japanese and non-Japanese languages, stationery to art gallery. M&C Cafe on the 4th floor is also one of the book store services.

The cafe's specialty is Hayashi rice (ハヤシライス) which is considered that the book store's fonder made the name for the first time in Japan. The hayashi rice is cooked carefully according to the cafe's traditional recipe. The stew is made from several kinds of vegetables and is served after cooked for long hours.

I ordered "Hayashi Ome-rice" (Omelet with rice and Hayashi sauce over it) to enjoy two best Yoshoku (洋食) foods at the same time.

The cafe is a good place to take lunch or a break with a cup of coffee during shopping and strolling in the book store. In addition, one side of the cafe is facing to Tokyo station and railways through a large window of toe-to-ceiling height.

Enjoy the traditional Hayashi as well as the view of running trains in Tokyo at the book store cafe.

Related story: Yoshoku (洋食)- Kurofune-tei(黒船亭)

http://aboutfoodinjapan.weblogs.jp/blog/2009/01/yoshoku---kurof.html

Cafe name: M & C cafe

Address: 4th floor Marunouchi Oazo, 1-6-4 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo