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  • Tokyo Food Diary part 3: tonkatsu and curry

    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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  • Rebel Heart tour, Madonna in Tokyo

    Rebel Heart tour, Madonna in Tokyo

    Part of the reason we went to Japan in February is this woman. She is not getting younger and we reckoned if we do not grab a chance to see her perform live on stage soon, she might retire. Hope she will be around longer than David and Prince. We are not die-hard fans but enjoyed

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  • Tokyo Food Diary part 2: beer, izakaya

    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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  • T-Site, Daikanyama 代官山, Tokyo

    T-Site, Daikanyama 代官山, Tokyo

    We spent almost half a day in Daikanyama 代官山, most of the time in the Tsutaya bookstore蔦屋書店. For Chris who has been photographing bookstores (for example, Livraria Cultura in Sao Paulo, Alexandra in Budapest etc.), this Tsutaya branch is a temple for worshipping. In a perfect world, all bookshops near me would be like this. Opened in

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