My love for tamales started when I was 19 or 20. I happened to visit my friend, and his mom had just finished making her famous tamales and I got to try one. I had never seen or heard of tamales before being from Japan. I just remember it being AMAZING with a mouth full of flavors.

I love RAMEN!! Ever since I moved to Los Angeles from Japan, I haven't found a place I can go to satisfy my craving for GOOD simple Shoyu Ramen. Here is my recipe

I happened to have some extra bags of dried mango for snacking! So I've been looking up several different recipes to see how else I can enjoy them :-)