Ramen Kohaku in Ikebukuro
Kohaku has to be the hottest ramen shop in Tokyo right now. The draw is apparently a broth made with shijimi clams from Lake Shinji. It had been a while since I was last in Tokyo, so I had to fit at least one …
Kohaku has to be the hottest ramen shop in Tokyo right now. The draw is apparently a broth made with shijimi clams from Lake Shinji. It had been a while since I was last in Tokyo, so I had to fit at least one …
I heard a cream puff specialty shop called Chouxcri had opened in Ikebukuro, so I went to check what connection it had with the famous shop in Ningyocho. A place like this.. The iPhone’s wide angle real…
I ended up having to meet some juniors in Ikebukuro.. Well, even in a tourist spot like this, if you look properly there are places worth eating at. Sniffing those out is a matter of instinct.. This is the pla…
While I was mapping out my whisky pilgrimage route, it turned out I would have to have lunch in Ikebukuro along the way. A quick search turned up an interesting ramen shop, so I went. Roughly like this?…
With the recession deepening these days, cheap, generous, fast-turnover restaurants like Ore no French and Uokin (and, if I add one more, Sushi no Midori) are booming in Tokyo. The prices are so competitive th…
I heard that a shrimp ramen specialist that is hugely popular in Hokkaido had opened in Ikebukuro, so I went to check it out. I am on a diet these days and trying to stay away from high-carb food like ramen, b…
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…
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…
Having come all the way to Tokyo, I couldn’t not have a bowl of ramen. Tokyo is where you can eat the trendiest ramen in the world, after all. After agonizing over what to have, I settled on Kissui, a sa…
Ginza Tenryu is a place I’d been hearing about for ages. It’s apparently famous for serving big, tasty gyoza cheap right in the middle of Ginza, so much so that people line up for it at lunchtime. …
I’ve been working my way through every ramen shop in Ikebukuro that’s supposed to be famous, and Menya Musashi is going to be the last one. If you count the not-so-famous places too, there are tons…
Mutekiya is one of those famous shops that always ranks near the top among Ikebukuro’s ramen places. These days I’m working my way through pretty much every ramen shop in Tokyo that’s worth a…