Cafe Planet3rd in Koenji
Maybe because rent isn’t all that high and it’s close to central Tokyo, Koenji is full of young people living on their own. A lot of my friends who moved up from the countryside live around here to…
Maybe because rent isn’t all that high and it’s close to central Tokyo, Koenji is full of young people living on their own. A lot of my friends who moved up from the countryside live around here to…
I went out to Shinjuku for lunch and really struggled to decide where to go. Having come all the way to Tokyo, I couldn’t just eat any old thing. So I headed to the Park Hyatt hotel in Shinjuku, making a…
The highlight of this trip was a restaurant in Nishiazabu, currently the chicest spot in Tokyo. It’s a quiet neighborhood right next to Roppongi, full of hidden gems. I went to one of them, a place calle…
I visited my friend who lives in Shirokane again. We see each other often, so I already know this neighborhood pretty well. From what I hear it’s a bit of a tough place to live, but well.. that kind of t…
I got to Tokyo around 11, and even though I had a lunch appointment at 1, I still needed a little palate-warmer first -_- so I headed straight to Ginza. The plan was to finally try a top-notch shio ramen speci…
These days I’m going to Tokyo on a regular schedule, about once every two months. I’ve got lots of friends there, there are plenty of places I want to try, and I get to catch the latest trends. Thi…
I’d helped someone I know with some computer stuff and got a meal out of it, but since it wasn’t anything major, we went somewhere reasonable: Jasmin, a cafe-cum-restaurant. It’s run by the s…
Someone I got to know somehow through work was hosting a Calera wine dinner, so I went along. Calera is the pricey wine people call the Romanée-Conti of California -_-. Apparently the winery’s owner trai…
I was craving hamo (pike conger), which is in season in summer, so I went to a place called Namhae Bada that’s supposed to be famous for Namdo-style seafood from the southwest coast. It’s near the …
There used to be plenty of foodie meetups in the club I’m part of, so most of the time I could just quietly tag along. These days, maybe because everyone’s busy or because of the recession, there a…
Something came up in Suwon, so I headed down there for a bit. It was all very last-minute, so I never got to have dinner, and on the way back I asked the taxi driver if there was any good place to eat around S…
It hadn’t been long since lunch, but I’d more or less digested it by then -_- so off I went to a ganjang gejang (soy-marinated crab) place that’s supposedly famous in Insadong. It’s cal…