What you see here is my more or less successful attempt at making Daifuku-Mochi – “a Japanese confection consisting of a small round mochi (glutinous rice cake) stuffed with sweet filling, most commonly anko, sweetened red bean paste made from azuki beans.”

You know I’d found Mochi from Taiwan on sale at an Asia Shop in [...]

Being extremely bored by writing a paper on water quality assessment guidelines, which btw is something I’d rater leave to those who get a kick out of interpreting the European Water Framework Directive and it’s applicability in order to classify water bodies in Germany, I chose something else that I had been procrastinating for [...]

What’s this?

hint #1 // hint #2 // hint #3 :-)

Yesterday evening I had a few drinks with an old friend of mine and someone came up, asking me about this little creature on my jacket:

I got this little Doraemon button about 25 years ago when we were in Japan and found it again among my stuff a few years ago. [...]

Dieses Bild stammt von der Website von Juergen Specht – einem in Japan lebenden deutschen Fotografen, der unter anderem hunderte Bilder von Automaten in Japan aufgenommen hat.
Er schreibt: "I believe that every photographer is a story teller. This is my story. The story of a German photographer living in Tokyo, [...]