Japanese Supermarket Food, November 2024
Asahi The Master It was just okay. The world’s best apple pie It caught my eye at a department store so I bought one, and it turns out the chef is fairly famous. There used to be a TV show called Iron …
Asahi The Master It was just okay. The world’s best apple pie It caught my eye at a department store so I bought one, and it turns out the chef is fairly famous. There used to be a TV show called Iron …
I’d say I’m posting all sorts of food.. except that these days I don’t get out to eat anywhere, so it ends up being the convenience store or the supermarket. Beni Haruka Chips Calbee’s…
I had been to Baguette once before, but their baguettes were not really my kind of style. So I left it at that, but then I found out that plenty of people love this style, so I gave it another go. The baguette…
A batch of assorted photos. Nikka Frontier A new whisky from Nikka, and the value for money is excellent. Tastes good for 2,000 yen. Misokin rich miso ramen A miso ramen produced by the famous YouTuber Hikak…
I heard there was a good bakery in Shizuoka City, so I went to check it out. The sign It sits in a tiny little neighborhood — I have no idea how everyone hears about it and makes their way out here.. Bread li…
If Yaizu has the Sakana Center, then Shimizu has Ichiba-kan. Think of it as a fish market. A place like this It sits roughly around Shimizu Port, has a bit of a tourist-spot feel to it, and the place is big. …
Nasusoba Murata is a place that serves nasusoba, the local ramen of Shimizu. It is a ramen with eggplant piled on top. It is so famous that there was no way I could skip it. A place like this The queue was pr…
For some reason I can’t quite explain, the Shimizu area of Shizuoka is famous for its local ramen. Of all of them I went to Ichigen Honten, known for its toki-miso ramen, where you dissolve the miso your…
A ramen shop called Yumeno Ippo has opened on the spot where a mapo ramen place I used to love had closed down. Yumeno Ippo (“one step toward the dream”) is the sister shop of a ramen place called …
Macolinne is a stylish cafe I’m fond of. It’s a place that never lets you down. The place Clean and tidy. Tarte Tatin It’s a very thin cake, but a really well made one. The apples are cooke…
Tenkin in Hamamatsu is a seriously good tendon (tempura rice bowl) place. The flavour is pretty distinctive, so it turned out to be a great spot to bring tourists to as well. Miso soup They said there was egg…
Torikizoku is a Japanese yakitori chain that has even opened a branch in Hongdae, Seoul. The name means something like “chicken nobility,” I suppose. It has been popular for ages, but I somehow nev…