Japanese Soba Noodles Tsuta, Sugamo
On this trip I put a ramen shop back on the itinerary for the first time in a while. Because it is delicious, obviously! And also because it is an easy place to go alone. A few years ago I did a big tour of To…
On this trip I put a ramen shop back on the itinerary for the first time in a while. Because it is delicious, obviously! And also because it is an easy place to go alone. A few years ago I did a big tour of To…
There are a few places in Tokyo I really love, and one of them is Kurofunetei. Tokyo has plenty of more refined or more upscale Western-style restaurants, but for some reason this is the one that clicks with m…
Aux Delices de Dodine, a name that is hard to even remember, is a popular French restaurant in Hamamatsucho. They do a 1,000-yen lunch, and it is generous enough that the office workers from around the neighbo…
The older I get, the more I seem to go only to places I have already been. It may just be the process of turning into a stubborn old man stuck in his ways, but honestly, it is also because there are not many p…
I tend to prefer the Incheon-Narita flights. Haneda-Tokyo has a strong business feel to it, more like popping over for an errand and heading straight back than actually traveling. Incheon and Narita are both b…
At the end of February I had a reason to go to Japan. Not to eat, but on some business. I finally got to use the Asiana Lounge at Incheon Airport for the first time.. I had made the card ages ago but my busy s…
By now I go to Jinjin so often that I deliberately skip the introduction. This time it was a gathering for drinking champagne. The main event of the day Jacques Selosse Initial. Apparently it is famous…
Toward the end of the Lunar New Year holiday, I got together with a few people who have a real talent for drinking and threw a home party at a friend’s place. Just like at the barbecue, it turned into a …
Honestly, Aoitori’s bread is not really my thing. It is plain Japanese-style bread, and I do not eat much plain bread even in Japan. It is more that I miss it once in a while. Anyway, this place runs not…
There is a hard-to-find bar in a basement in a residential part of Hannam-dong. It has a great reputation, but this was my first visit. Left to myself, I never seem to end up at a bar like this. Came ou…
Came to Cheung Kee Noodle House for the first time in a while. We seem to get together often before winter ends.. ahem.. Stir-fried gai lan Loaded with garlic. It has a nice bite too, so the stir-fried…
After leaving Dining in Space I wandered around here and there and ended up at the Shinsegae Department Store. The Shinsegae main store is really hot these days, and there is plenty to see. Sardine choc…