I went out to a shrimp truck away from town to try the garlic shrimp the North Shore is famous for. I think it was about a 15-minute walk. This is roughly what the truck looks like. It is not exactly cheap….
The Cheesecake Factory is a famous family restaurant even by American standards, so I really wanted to go at least once. The line is always long, so I went late at night, and we got seated right away. Exterio…
I had heard there was a great fruit shop in Waikiki, but I wondered whether it was really worth the trip. Fruit is something you can just buy at the supermarket, after all. In fact, the papaya I bought at the …
ABC Stores are the convenience marts you see everywhere in Waikiki. My hotel plan did not include breakfast (for some reason there were not many plans that did), so I used them all the time. The ABC Store next…
Before I came to Hawaii, Marunbi (@rumaru) told me I absolutely had to try this burger place, which sits at the far end of the beach after you cross all the way through Waikiki. It is called Teddy’s Bigg…
Eggs ‘n Things, famous for its pancakes, probably has the longest line in all of Hawaii. On the way back from dolphin watching, I noticed the line was not that long, so I went in. The first floor The …
Ala Moana Center is not all that far from Waikiki. We took the trolley over, and the first thing we did was eat, at Alan Wong’s The Pineapple Room. It is a place serving casual Hawaiian food. I had heard…
Somehow I ended up going to Hawaii. I was flying out of Narita Airport on a night flight, which meant dinner had to happen at Narita. To be honest, Narita Airport is pretty dated and there really are not any r…
Fujimaru’s ramen is seriously addictive; once you have had it and liked it, you end up going back again and again. A few of my Japanese friends are addicts, so off we went. Fujimaru ramen This is the …
Dinner had been a bit skimpy, so I stopped by a tanmen shop in Kinshicho for a late-night bowl on the way home. Tanmen is a light shio ramen loaded with vegetables. The front entrance It was late at night, …
Having come all the way to Gunma, there was no way I was skipping the hot springs. There is Ikaho Onsen near the Mizusawa udon place, but I went to Kusatsu Onsen, the most famous one in Gunma. There were so ma…
Japan’s three great udon are Sanuki, Inaniwa and Mizusawa udon. I have been to Kagawa, the home of Sanuki udon, and Inaniwa udon has a famous shop in Ginza and, being dried noodles, tastes much the same …