Category: <span>Food</span>

Food & everyday life

From island to table: Batida.

A visit to Batida in Ishigaki: the ingredients, people and ideas behind a restaurant inside Seven × Seven Hotel.

Food & everyday life

Inside Ikehara Distillery.

A hands-on visit to an Ishigaki distillery, where making awamori brings rice, black koji and three generations of family knowledge together.

Restaurant Rakumi in Ishigaki

A cozy kappo-style restaurant in Ishigaki, led by a skilled chef and known for carefully prepared seasonal Japanese dishes.

Food & everyday life

A return to Joo Chiat Cafe.

A familiar stop in Kabira: a personal account of food, conversation and returning to Joo Chiat Cafe.

7Days7Cafes: Hot sugarcane juice in Ishigaki at Parlor Papaya

#7days7cafes Sugarcane juice in Ishigaki This is an updated story: We visited Parlor Papaya many times already. Mostly after a short walk up to the Yaeyama palmtree forest. This time we visited Parlor Papaya in the winter time. While it’s not particularly cold in Ishigaki Island during the winter, when you are used to hot […]