Hana and me have had different past lives, she is a Tokyo born, raised in Osaka, from the beginning she has been inspired by flavor, texture and culture. Like I say sometimes going in Japan is like a food marathon it will stop only when you leave the country. Every country have their good and bad aspect, and all of the aspect can be debated. Yet, social pressure in her home country for someone
that feel, think, live differently can be unbearable. At the age of 21, she left home for a year, by bicycle, visiting every prefecture of Japan and trying to find the hidden people, the ones like her, the different. At 25, she left Japan for the Philippines and a long list of adventures. I am from a village of 1000 inhabitants in north Quebec surrounded by unlimited forest, rivers and lakes. I grew up going hunting with my father and going on adventures in the forest on my own. Potatoes and moose, potatoes and beef, potatoes and chicken, potatoes and sausages, well, you get the idea. I started to grow curiosity in foreign culture and food at a point where I left University to start a 10 years trip where I would come back 3 months a year to earn enough so I could feed my curiosity and get the missing parts that I needed. Different life, culture and personalities but Sharing the same passions we met randomly in Lijiang, China and another time a week after in Shangri-la where we decided to start traveling together, on our way to Kyrgyzstan we both knew life had done the impossible, bringing together two lost soulmate. Here we are now, HacoHouse is a meeting point in between a Japanese city girl and lonesome Canadian country side boy and the result of 5 years of cultural collision.
