Well we were a little late getting David Chang’s Lucky Peach magazine, our friend Gord first told us about the issue, and ever since we’ve been trying to get our paws on a copy.

The first issue was of particular interest because it’s the “Ramen” issue, something we’ve grown addicted to since our trip to Hokkaido. The Momofuku book was loaned to us by Kai, a friend of the shop. He always comes in and talks about his experiences in Japan and abroad and thought we’d appreciate the story telling in the cookbook.

On that note we have some news! We’re going to making another trip to Japan during the 2nd week of September. We’re going to be traveling around Kanazawa, Kyoto, and a couple days in Tokyo. After planning this trip and reading all about ramen we thought we’d have lunch at Kenzo, arguably the best ramen in Toronto!

We both ordered the miso ramen. We ask to get some additional garlic paste and spice to get it a bit closer to Asahikawa ramen, our white whale of ramen. The place is bustling with Japanese students at lunch but we got a table, and it didn’t take long to get our order of gyoza and ramen.

Besides the social aspects of traveling, our favorite thing is always food so we’re excited to try new places and share them all with you. Hopefully we’ll have some great workshop tours as well.

Thank you so much for your wonderful comments about our new tea towel design! We’re giving 5 away and the lucky winners are…

Commenters:

11 - Celine

144 - Hazel

56 - Jyen

151 - Aaron

7 – Christina

If you won, you’ll be getting an email from us shortly. If you lost, you can always buy a tea towel through our webstore!

We hope everyone is having a fantastic summer! We’ve been very busy but not too busy to share our new tea towels with you. We feel especially close to the people we’ve been working with, who have grown along with us since opening our store. Kauniste produces our favorite tea towels, and the moment we received our first shipment we knew we wanted to collaborate with them some how.

It was a few orders later that we asked them if we could work together to produce a Mjölk (milk) themed tea towel, and in the beginning it just didn’t seem like time could permit the project, between the two of us growing our businesses we just didn’t know if the idea would get off the ground. It wasn’t until our trip to Helsinki that Milla and Hiro surprised us with some milk inspired illustrations by Maria Tolvanen. We were thrilled they had pocketed our idea and had taken it to the next level of getting ideas on paper. Over the next month we worked with Milla, Hiro, and Maria tweaking some of the design and we couldn’t be happier with the result.

The tea towels are available in three different colours and feature some of our favorite things including a few nods to classic Finnish design. Can you spot them?

To celebrate receiving the tea towels we thought it would be nice to do a free giveaway! All you need to do is leave a comment, we’d love to know what you think of the towels and which colour you like best!

Sorry, the contest is over…