Place Mange, a bakery in Hamamatsu
Place Mange is famous around here for making really good bread. The place It sits back inside a side street, so parking is a bit of a challenge.. and apparently when the crowds show up you have to wait for a …
Place Mange is famous around here for making really good bread. The place It sits back inside a side street, so parking is a bit of a challenge.. and apparently when the crowds show up you have to wait for a …
Just putting up a few photos I snapped without much thought. The Pacific The horizon Yogibo Yogibo looked pretty good, so I bought one, but the smell was awful… I really did not see that coming……
Lunch at RIVET was so good that we went back again for dinner. Beer Lemon soda One of us had to drive, so we couldn’t all raise a glass together. Apple soda The kitchen The real deal. One-plate a…
In a corner of Kosai called Arai, the old town has been left standing as it was, and the city is running a project to convert the old houses there. For Koreans, think of the remodelled hanok in Ikseon-dong — i…
Kosai City sits right next to Hamamatsu City, and just beyond that is Toyohashi in Aichi Prefecture. So while it is technically a city in Shizuoka, you could say it is closer to Aichi. I spotted a ramen shop b…
Korean restaurants started popping up in every neighbourhood in Japan at least ten years or so ago. Part of it is simply that yakiniku is Korean food to begin with, but lately the more serious, properly Korean…
chocott is a small dessert shop run by a Cordon Bleu-trained pâtissier. You might be surprised that somewhere this serious exists out in the countryside, but country folk actually make pretty decent money.. wh…
Asakusaken is a well-known ramen shop in Hamamatsu. The place It is not the easiest place to get to, yet it is always full of people. Out in rural Japan everyone gets around by car, so I suspect that as long …
Sushiro is, to put it plainly, a very ordinary conveyor-belt sushi chain. It is just a chain, so I figured we could turn up whenever and be fine – which was naive, because when we got there the queue was…
BBQ has made its way into Japan, and now they’ve opened in Hamamatsu too. There’s a Costco nearby, plus Xebio and mont-bell, so I stopped by while I was over there anyway. The place It feels more …
I heard there was a special ramen shop in Hamamatsu, so off I went. Daruma Seimenjo This is the place.. When I got there the queue was pretty long, so I waited about an hour before getting in. On the way̷…
Tenkin is a place in downtown Hamamatsu famous for its tendon. The line is long whenever you go, and when a place out in the provinces has people queuing, I trust it even more than the ones people line up for …