Tag: tokyo
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Our trips 2019, part 1
Dear Readers, Happy 2020 ! We have moved here about a decade ago, and started this blog just before our departure from New York. So this blog is 10 years old ! We took a break from updating the blog earlier this year because of other projects. But we are committed to keep this going as long…
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Our trips 2018, part 2
Dear Readers, It has been a tradition on this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. In Part 1, we posted photos of places we visited in the second half of 2018. Here are the places we visited in the first half. Click on the links, where…
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Our trips 2018, part 1
Dear Readers, Happy 2019 ! It is a tradition on this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. We traveled more in 2018 than 2017, at least in terms of distance traveled. Chris had been to Hong Kong and Tokyo twice and went to the Middle East. Click…
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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.…