We came, we ate and we gained weight. Regardless of whether this blog existed or not, we still would of eaten our way through a crap load of restaurants. Not just with the es&t crew, but with friends, family, work colleagues and even people we have met through blogging.

This is a pretty random list. I asked each one of the crew for their favourite dish and this is what we came up with for our favourite dishes of 2009.

When I mentioned briefly about Homer Hudson Ice Cream in my Se Joung post, I didn’t acticipate so many closet fans of the brand. In fact, I think I received more comments about the Ice cream than the actual post itself! Naturally, I went out and bought all the flavours which were stocked at my local Woolies so I could see what else the fuss was about. I have only tried the cookies and cream version and it is pretty hard to beat. How do the rest stack up Homer ?

Over the next few weeks I will be blogging about what I ate throughout Osaka, Tokyo, Shirakawa-go, Takayama, Iya Valley, Nozawa Onsen, Hirayu Onsen and Kanazawa. In the mean time, here is my list of five things I loved about Japan over the last few weeks.