Category: food & drinks
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Shabu-gen しゃぶ玄, Akasaka 赤坂, Tokyo
DS picked this shabu-shabu specialist in Akasaka, not far from her office. The restaurant is situated on the 5th floor of a building with a McDonald downstairs. Definitely not a easy place to find, but it was full soon after we arrived. It is unlikely that any one would stumble into this restaurant by chance.…
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Tokyo Food Diary part 3: tonkatsu and curry
This is part 3 of a series of posts which is about tasting the authentic version of Japanese comfort/convenience food that we have been eating outside Japan – all in the one week we had in Tokyo. Part 1 is about noodles, Part 2 about izakaya. Part 3 is about grilled foods (yakiniku) as well…
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Tokyo Food Diary part 2: beer, izakaya
This is part 2 of a series of posts which is about tasting authentic versions of Japanese food that we have been eating outside Japan – all in the one week we had in Tokyo. Part 1 is about noodles. Part 2 is about drinks and snacks. We spent half a day at Skytree with…
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Tokyo Food Diary part 1: Ramen, Tsukemen, Udon
On this trip, we wanted to taste the authentic version of various genres of convenient Japanese food that we have been eating outside Japan. For more traditional fare, we had during our ryokan stays (click here). We had only about a week in Tokyo and managed to eat ramen, shabu-shabu, tonkatsu, Japanese curry, izakaya dining, yakimono,…
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Sushi Matsue 松栄, Ebisu 恵比寿, Tokyo
We had about a week in Tokyo and wanted to reacquaint ourselves with as many different genres of authentic Japanese food as we can. We managed to have sushi (see below), yakimono, wagashi, ramen, shabu-shabu, tonkatsu, localized chinese, french and italian, japanese curry and izakaya snacks (see later posts). We had lunch with IT’s friend who…
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Jomon no Yado Manten 縄文の宿 まんてん, Yakushima 屋久島
Jomon no Yado Manten (JNYM, 縄文の宿 まんてん) was our lodgings for 3 days on Yakushima 屋久島. It is 1-minute walk from the airport, basically just across the 2-lane main road that circumnavigates the island. The airport is really an airstrip and it closes after the last flight left or landed in late afternoon. Between the two ryokans that…