Tag: japan
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Ando Museum by Tadao Ando on Naoshima
Ando Museum was our first stop on this day trip to the island of Naoshima 直島. See the first post in this series for more about this wonderful Japanese island. The museum is located in Honmura, a charmingly tiny town where food options were very limited. We were lucky to find Ishii Shouten 石井商店 that…
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Art & Architecture on Naoshima 直島, Japan
Chris spent a full day on Naoshima 直島 to see its contemporary art installations and museums. This is the first of a series of posts on this trip. Naoshima Naoshima is a small island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea 瀬戸内海. The Seto Inland Sea lies between three of the four main islands of Japan (Honshu,…
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Tokyo Food Diary part 5: snacks
The earlier posts in this series are all about Japanese convenience/comfort foods that we have been eating some exported versions of them outside Japan (Part 1 is about noodles, part 2 about izakaya, part 3 is about grilled foods as well as tonkatsu and curry, and part 4 is about wagashi. Japanese snacks is an entire world…
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Tokyo Food Diary: wagashi 和菓子
The first three posts of the series are all about sampling the Japanese comfort/convenience food that we have been eating outside Japan (Part 1 is about noodles, Part 2 about izakaya, and in Part 3 we ate grilled foods as well as tonkatsu and curry). This post is about sweets – the traditional wagashi 和菓子. The specialist…
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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…