Shirohige’s Cream Puff Shop, Takaido
Takaido, near Kichijoji, is far from where I live and is a quiet residential area with not much going on, so it is not somewhere you would go out of your way for, but I heard a rumor about a workshop selling T…
Takaido, near Kichijoji, is far from where I live and is a quiet residential area with not much going on, so it is not somewhere you would go out of your way for, but I heard a rumor about a workshop selling T…
Walking around Harajuku, I spotted a newly opened candy shop, Candy Artisans The Red Balloon. The front entrance There was some kind of big steel table inside with a crowd gathered around it, so I went in o…
La Bettola da Ochiai, the Italian restaurant in Ginza, is a really good place whether you look at the prices or the food, but lately I just cannot find the time to go. So, hoping to at least taste their desser…
I heard there was a cream puff shop in Ningyocho that people line up for, so I dropped by one Saturday. They sell freshly made cream puffs in limited numbers three times a day, at 9, 12 and 5, and they sell ou…
Right in front of the entrance to the food floor of Nihonbashi Takashimaya, one of the top department stores in Tokyo, there is a cake shop called Au Bon Vieux Temps. Whenever I dropped by there were never any…
While wandering the streets of Asakusa I stumbled on a shop specialising in daigaku imo. Daigaku imo is candied sweet potato, what we call goguma mattang in Korea. It looks roughly like this. It has that sp…
After a good lunch, I headed to the next place for dessert. The back streets of Asakusa are full of famous old shops, and one of them is a well-regarded anmitsu specialist, so I gave it a try. The entrance …
Naniwaya is the place in Azabu-Juban famous for its taiyaki. They have a branch in Asakusa, so I went there for a little dessert after lunch. The front entrance It sits on the back side of Asakusa, off the …
I bought all my home appliances in one go at Yamada Denki in Ikebukuro. If you are going to live in Japan there is a lot you need anyway, so buying it all at once is the economical way to do it. The more you b…
I heard a churros specialty shop had opened in Hongdae, so I went to take a look. I’m not really the type who loves the overpriced churros you get at amusement parks or movie theaters, but when I heard t…
A donut shop that’s famous in Japan has opened in Korea. There seem to be several branches, and a big one has appeared in Hongdae, where I often hang out, right in front of the playground. The storefront Hm…
After a barbecue that went off beautifully, a few of us got together for a second round. D’ange is a cafe in Hapjeong-dong, and apparently it’s the flagship store of Histoire d’Ange in Hongda…