J∙Festa – November 2011 Theme
J∙Festa – November 2011 Theme Closed
Submissions to the November 2011 edition of J-Festa are now closed. The “Dining in Japan” carnival, containing twenty-one inspiring articles, has been published.
Call For Submissions
Welcome to the theme announcement for the November 2011 edition of J∙Festa. The submission lines are now open and everyone is invited to participate!
J∙Festa is a blogging festival showcasing the best of Japan. If you missed the October 2011 edition, don’t forget to check out the eleven inspiring and thought-provoking submissions to “Entertainment in Japan”.
Theme
“Dining in Japan”
In this edition of J∙Festa tell us about an interesting or popular dining experience in Japan. The possibilities are endless. It could be related to a dining spot or specialised eatery such as an izakaya, a gourmet restaurant, a fast-food outlet, a sushi restaurant, a ramen shop, a food stall, a restaurant serving foreign cuisine. The list could go on. It does not have to be a famous dining spot but it must be related to Japan.
Rules and Guidelines
Aside from contributing within the context of the theme, there are only three very simple rules to follow:
- Submissions should be made in accordance with the J∙Festa Submission Guidelines.
- The submitted article must contain at least one related picture.
- The submitted article must contain a link back to this page.
How to Submit
Following are the ways to submit an article:
- Leave a comment on this post with a link to the article being submitted.
- Submit the article using the contact form.
Deadline
The deadline for submissions to this edition of J∙Festa is midnight Tuesday 22nd November 2011 (Tokyo time).
Gambatte!
Trackbacks & Pingbacks
- Travel Checklist: Local Foods in Hida-Takayama, Part 2 « I'll Make It Myself!
- Travel Checklist: Local Foods in Hida-Takayama, Part 1 « I'll Make It Myself!
- Fishing in Shinjuku? Who Knew?
- Best Pizza In Tokyo | Scene With A Hart
- Yoshinoya Fast Food – Cheap Beef Bowls for all | Jamaipanese
- Dining in Japan: Kaiten-zushi « Haikugirl's Japan
- Please- Don`t Make Me Eat That- Monjayaki | Hey from Japan- Notes on Moving, Emily Cannell
- Traditional Kaiseki Cuisine at a Japanese Ryokan | A Modern Girl / モダンガール
- It’s alive! | Dennis and Helena in Japan
- Put the F, U in YUFUIN BURGER « angrygaijin
- Dining in Japan | japingu
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Leeeeeeeeeee!
You’re the best! Thanks for the great list of stuff to read in the October edition.
I’d like to submit my story about Bento stands in Osaka. I love, love, love Bento…almost as much as I love loco’s writing!
Where Is Darren Now – Bento Stands
Darren
thanks for your submission darren. cool article!
Looks like a great topic, and right up my alley! Already thinking about how to write my article!
looking forward to seeing what you have in store. ^^
My fresh post is on dining in Takayama, but it’s part 2/2. I’ll give you both links; if you can only accept one, part 2 is more recent.
Part 1: http://illmakeitmyself.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/travel-checklist-local-foods-in-hida-takayama-part-1/
Part 2: http://illmakeitmyself.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/travel-checklist-local-foods-in-hida-takayama-part-2/
making me hungry x 2!
Great edition last month! Here’s my submission for November, on a restaurant where you catch your own fish!
http://whoa-im-in-japan.com/2011/11/fishing-in-shinjuku-who-knew/
you can’t get any fresher than that!
Here’s my post about Gindako Takoyaki. Gindako is all over Japan, probably the most popular takoyaki chain in Japan, and well deserved, too. Their delicious takoyaki have especially crisp shells.
http://www.littlejapanmama.com/2011/11/gindaco-takoyaki-tsukiji-gindako.html
♡
gindaco has now been added to the to do list! ^^
Yo Lee! Please find my entry about Sweets Paradise :O).
http://www.goukaseishi.com/2011/11/10/sweets-paradise-japanese-buffet-restaurant/
wow! in terms of sweets, that place takes the cake.
Ah, just what I needed! Will get a cracking on an article…
Looking forward to it Envoy-sama!
Sounds interesting. I better get my thinking cap on and try and come up with something good
Japan Australia
I don’t expect anything less from you JA.
I’m just discovering this! Wish I knew about it earlier. What a great way to learn about Japan, meet new bloggers and share your posts.
My submission (hope I am doing this right, first timer) is about the best place to get pizza in Tokyo. I love eating here and it’s one of the places that I take friends who are traveling to Tokyo.
http://www.scenewithahart.com/asia/best-pizza-in-tokyo/
Glad you found us Fidel. That pizza looks awesome!
my entry for those month – http://www.jamaipanese.com/yoshinoya/ enjoyed the meal and had fun writing this post!
…and learnt how to catch flies in your chopsticks like mr miyagi!
Thanks! I LOVE monja…. http://wp.me/p14vOu-1iA
I agree with your “Looks nasty, tastes great” categorisation of monjayaki!
Phew! Goodbye, writer’s block!
Here’s my submission for this month… Fondue for Two!
http://mmm-fruit.com/2011/11/fondue-for-two/
Fondue is so under-rated! Thanks for participating.
I am happy to be able to participate in this again!! ^ ^
although my entry is nowhere near as cool as some of the others i’ve been reading!!
but here it is:
http://momoaisu.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-favorite-izakaya.html
thank you! (:
thanks emily. great to see you back again. ^_^
Here you go: http://haikugirl.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/dining-in-japan-kaiten-zushi Thanks for keeping this excellent Festa running! (^_^)v
Thank you Lee. What is great of dining in Japan is not only Japanese food or Japanese restaurant. In Tokyo especially, we have a plenty of choices in international cuisines and many of them are very high standard, close to the ones available in original locations. French, Italian, Chinese restaurants etc etc…I believe…those in Japan are the best after ones in their original countries.
This is one of the example. New Zealand cuisine!!
http://aboutfoodinjapan.weblogs.jp/blog/2011/11/arossa-new-zealand-cuisine-ginza.html
It’s been a long time since I last had the free-time or content to contribute to your wonderful J-Festa theme blog, but here’s my contribution. A small little izakaya with a difference in downtown Sapporo (Susukino). Ultra-Japanese decor – and a good feel. Hope you enjoy it – it’s made my wife and I very hungry preparing it.
Of course – it would have been good to have left a link (d’oh!)
http://japaneseties.blogspot.com/2011/11/izakaya-dining-through-time-in-sapporo.html
Here’s my submission!
http://amoderngirl.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/traditional-kaiseki-cuisine-at-a-japanese-ryokan/
If I had known about last month’s J-Fest I would have participated. But I kept checking your main page and there were no links or information. Perhaps you might want to set up a page that gets updated each month so people have one place to look? Since this is the page that comes up in searches why not post a link to the new request for submissions on it? http://japingu.com/j-festa/
While I haven’t had some of the amazing dining adventures that others have had, I’ve had some pretty good meals. So I’m going to submit a post from just the other day of a meal I had a few days after the 3/11 disasters. It was something trying to find food in Tokyo since I was traveling and thus did not have a home with supplies.
http://blukats.blogspot.com/2011/11/food-for-friday-yes-i-ate-this-tokyo.html
I wish I had a post or two about my recent recipe testing for a new Japanese cook book that will be out soon from Elizabeth Andoh. Maybe if you have a theme that fits it in the future I will add this. It was very interesting.
Ah, I just looked at the main page and see you have now added links. I am glad you did that. My mistake for not seeing that before commenting just now.
Hi Julie, thanks for your continued J-Festa participation! You actually did lodge a published submission in October’s J-Festa. It was the Yoyogi Rockabillies piece. There hasn’t been a J-Festa publication since. Only a call for submissions for the November edition. I am glad that you caught it. That salmon on rice looked delicious!
Another option to consider is to subscribe at the link below so that you get an email notification whenever a call for submissions is published.
http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=japingu&loc=en_US
Here is my submission for November’s J-Festa – Cat Time Café in Osaka a unique dining experience in Japan
http://japan-australia.blogspot.com/2011/07/cat-time-cafe-in-osaka.html
http://hachikin-hakujin.blogspot.com/2011/11/night-out-at-hirome-ichiba.html
Here is my contribution to the J-Festa! Hirome Ichiba in Kochi City, Kochi-ken.
I decided to submit my most spectacular dining experience so far: sashimi so fresh that the fish’s head was still moving. The post contains a video of the moving head.
http://thejapans.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/its-alive/
Here, dear readers, is my post.
love always
-Last Minute Man
http://angrygaijin.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/put-the-f-u-in-yufuin-burger/