There’s an unwritten rule in the snowboarding community that no matter how freezing cold it is outside, eating ice cream or gelato after a day on the slopes is strictly mandatory. Haha! So when hubby and I finished carving down the powder at Hakuba Goryu Snow Resort, we stepped back into Escal Plaza hunting for […]
Every Singaporean home has its hiding spots. The gold chain in the bedroom drawer, the property deeds in a fireproof box under the bed, the jade bangle in a bank box nobody has visited since Chinese New Year. Increasingly, there is a fourth answer: a private vault run by an operator with no connection to […]
Some meals stick with you—not just because of the food, but because of the whole experience. That’s exactly how Hubby and I feel about マンガ喫茶 COM, the little manga café in Hakuba we now fondly refer to as “the place with the grumpy boss”. Spoiler: he’s not really that grumpy. But the story? Oh, it’s […]
Remember in my Cafe Cubanos Hakuba post when I said I’d rather go to Starbucks? Well, we did exactly that. We hunted down the one and only Starbucks Hakuba, tucked inside the Snow Peak Land Station complex. Turns out it’s less than a 10-minute drive from where we were staying at Il Bosco. Easy peasy. […]
If you’re skiing or snowboarding in Hakuba and craving something comforting, fresh, and easy on the wallet, Donmaru Hakuba needs to be on your list. We stayed at Il Bosco just down the road, and this little donburi shop became our go-to lunch spot after a morning on the slopes. Less than 5 minutes by […]
So here’s the story — hubby’s colleague had tried Hakuba Pizza with his family and told us it wasn’t bad, so we thought, why not, let’s give it a go while we’re in Hakuba too. We decided on takeaway for dinner and pre-ordered the day before. How We Ordered from Hakuba Pizza Ordering was pretty […]
Sometimes you just need to duck into a cafe, wrap your frozen fingers around a hot mug, and thaw out. That’s exactly how we ended up at Cafe Cubanos Hakuba. Our original pick was shut, we were peckish and freezing, so we wandered in for a warm-up. Spoiler: the warm-up was better than the food. […]
For years, I loved everything about hosting except the part that came after. A steamboat dinner with the family, a birthday spread squeezed onto the kitchen counter, a casual potluck in the flat. The laughter would fade, the last guest would step into the lift, and I would turn around to face a kitchen that […]
Hubby spotted Takahashi Ke 髙橋家 on social media and insisted we give it a go. So after a morning session of snowboarding in Hakuba, we trudged over for lunch, hoping a piping hot bowl of ramen would be the perfect reward. Spoiler: the queue had other plans for us. The Queue at Takahashi Ke: Come […]
