http://inebriatedpig.com Sun, 10 Jan 2016 15:05:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 http://inebriatedpig.com/set-rotterdam/ http://inebriatedpig.com/set-rotterdam/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2015 12:52:16 +0000 http://inebriatedpig.com/?p=825 I was still coming down from my ramen-high in Amstelveen when we noticed a new restaurant on the West-Kruiskade in Rotterdam, SET Noodle & Hotpot it is called. A ramen shop! Could it be? We were standing out front sharing a Johnny cake and kroket from Toko Nobo (across the road), looking in, and thought, why […]]]> http://inebriatedpig.com/set-rotterdam/feed/ 1 http://inebriatedpig.com/ishii-and-tanuki-amstelveen/ http://inebriatedpig.com/ishii-and-tanuki-amstelveen/#comments Sun, 31 May 2015 14:49:34 +0000 http://inebriatedpig.com/?p=811 My friend works in Amstelveen and when we met up for lunch he surprised me by taking me to a Japanese restaurant. In fact there were several to choose from, right next to each other, specializing in different things. I said, “Well which one is good?” And he said, “They all are.” Huh? Why so […]]]> http://inebriatedpig.com/ishii-and-tanuki-amstelveen/feed/ 0 http://inebriatedpig.com/dertien-and-yama-1-year-celebration-rotterdam/ http://inebriatedpig.com/dertien-and-yama-1-year-celebration-rotterdam/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2015 21:22:11 +0000 http://inebriatedpig.com/?p=697 When I heard that two of my favorite places in town were getting together to organize a birthday party, I made sure to keep an eye out for reservations to become available, and when they did, I hesitated not. So this all played out about a month ago when Dertien and the eponymous Japanese cuisine Yama organized their first birthday […]]]> http://inebriatedpig.com/dertien-and-yama-1-year-celebration-rotterdam/feed/ 1 http://inebriatedpig.com/japanese-cuisine-yama-rotterdam/ http://inebriatedpig.com/japanese-cuisine-yama-rotterdam/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2014 12:38:40 +0000 http://inebriatedpig.com/?p=150 Little over a year ago I attended the umami event at the Rotterdam World food festival, where professor Ole G. Mouritsen gave a presentation about umami, complemented with food prepared by chef Pepijn Schmeink (at the time chef/owner at Eendracht, now at Dertien) and chef Yamamoto or Yama for short. We had some interesting dishes at the hands of […]]]> http://inebriatedpig.com/japanese-cuisine-yama-rotterdam/feed/ 0