Spiders scurried away as I pulled open the privacy screen in the telephone booth. Shielding my eyes from the rain, I attempted to fit my luggage and myself inside the impossibly tiny space. The 10-yen coin in my pocket bought me about one minute to talk. “Moshi moshi?” I heard on the receiving end moments…

As printed in Eighty Degrees Magazine: Volume 2. Recently, I had the pleasure of experiencing a private tea tasting at PLANTATION by Teakha in Hong Kong. As for the technique, they use a simplified fusion of two tea ceremony types: Taiwanese and Chinese gong fu. This means they incorporate a teapot and multiple small cups…

Kumihama Bay. Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Visit with Atsushi Toyoshima: oyster farmer and innovator. After arriving in the Kyotango Peninsula I suited up in a bright rubber-duck yellow rain slicker alongside Atsushi in his modest blue one as we geared up to head out into the Kumihama Bay. Bringing around the skiff tied behind several larger…