Yang, a Chinese restaurant in Ikebukuro
Yang, a Chinese restaurant in Ikebukuro, is famous for its fiery Sichuan cooking. I’d always liked the mapo tofu at the main branch, and the place showed up in the TV drama Kodoku no Gurume (The Solitary…
Yang, a Chinese restaurant in Ikebukuro, is famous for its fiery Sichuan cooking. I’d always liked the mapo tofu at the main branch, and the place showed up in the TV drama Kodoku no Gurume (The Solitary…
I went not just around central Tokyo but all the way out to Chiba. I was doing the legwork out to Chiba to get good furniture even a little cheaper. Minami-Funabashi, where the IKEA is, isn’t as far as I…
I had to sort out lunch in Hamamatsucho, so I headed to Shin-A Hanten — a little pricey, but the food is good. Soup At lunchtime you have to go for the lunch special menu Stir-fried eggplant I love stir-f…
A long weekend for the first time in a while – although Japan has plenty of long weekends. Feels like there’s one almost every month.. Anyway, with the holiday here, I’m off to Shizuoka becau…
This July I ended up wandering all over the city. I had some business in Kinshicho around lunchtime, so while I was there I stopped by a local favorite. As some of you may know, Kinshicho has plenty of Chinese…
Shibaura, the stretch between JR Tamachi Station and JR Hamamatsucho Station, has a small canal running through it. It isn’t used for moving freight the way canals in Korea are, it seems to be purely orn…
Odaiba is famous as a tourist spot, but it also has big shopping malls and is easy to reach by car, which makes it a handy place to go shopping. I had a lot of things to buy on this trip to Japan, so I ended u…
I left Korea at the end of June and came to Tokyo. That was already three months ago T.T At first I was so busy that looking after the blog never even crossed my mind, and now that I finally sat down to upload…
Since I’m heading back to Japan, we held a farewell party for our gourmet club at Trattoria Molto in Apgujeong. As you know, Molto is a really wonderful restaurant. We booked out the whole place for a sp…
After a good amount of wine at 2chef, we move on to The Factory. Is this déjà vu, perhaps? Whisky glasses They serve it with a round ball of ice. When you drink whisky on the rocks, a round ice ball melts e…
Not long after getting back from Boracay, we had a wine gathering at 2chef in Hongdae. I’m heading to Japan soon, so it doubled as a farewell party. This was finally my first chance to try the new menu a…
On the last day I staked out the best spot at the pool first thing in the morning. The sea as seen from the infinity pool The weather was cloudy, but it was still fun. It would have been lovely if the clear…