Ristorante HiRo in Aoyama
I went to Hiro, a famous Italian restaurant that competes for the number one or two spot even in Tokyo. It’s in the basement of a building right in the middle of a residential area, so it’s a litt…
I went to Hiro, a famous Italian restaurant that competes for the number one or two spot even in Tokyo. It’s in the basement of a building right in the middle of a residential area, so it’s a litt…
I finally went to Shinjuku Gen, the ramen shop yepok strongly recommended to me a while ago. It’s a Hokkaido-style ramen shop. It had moved from its original spot, so I had a bit of trouble finding it, b…
Even after buying a book on Tokyo’s good eats and flipping through it, Shibuya doesn’t really have many places worth going to. As befits a young people’s neighborhood, most of the famous spot…
Just because a place is a chain with branches everywhere doesn’t mean it’s as bland as McDonald’s. That’s especially true in Japan: at places like Pepper Lunch, the tendon (tempura rice…
On this trip back to Korea, I went to Kanji Gogo, a Chinese restaurant on the way from COEX Mall into the Oakwood hotel. I’d originally planned to have the lunch course at Mokran in Apgujeong, but the me…
Ginza, glittering with luxury brands and upscale department stores, and Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo’s kitchen, couldn’t be more different in image, but in reality they’re very close to each ot…
Lately I bought a book of 500 really good ramen shops, and I’ve been making the rounds of the famous ones. But being famous doesn’t mean a shop actually serves good ramen. Prime examples are Kyush…
There was a Carrefour near the hotel I was staying at. For a combined dinner and late-night snack (I’d had ramen as a late lunch..) I picked up a few things and tried them. The wine is a half bottle of R…
Chiba gets pretty much no coverage in the usual guidebooks, so I dug through Yahoo! Japan’s gourmet listings, made a note of a place that looked decent, and gave it a try. The result: a flop. Sigh. Once …
I’ve flown on all kinds of planes, but this is the first time I’ve had such a pathetic in-flight meal.. Only slightly better than getting nothing at all.. Well, the ticket was cheap, so I guess I j…
Besides the anpan some people call “Lee Byung-chul bread” (supposedly a favourite of the Samsung founder), Ginza Kimuraya sells loads of different breads. One of them is this castella. There’…
By “wine in Japan” I don’t mean Japanese-made wine. ^_^;; I just want to talk a bit about the wine that’s sold in Japan. Wine culture took root in Japan much earlier than in Korea, and …