Shunmon, My Neighbourhood Izakaya
A friend came to visit, so I booked a table at an izakaya that’s fairly well known around here. It may be just a neighbourhood izakaya, but it serves regional dishes made with ingredients shipped straigh…
A friend came to visit, so I booked a table at an izakaya that’s fairly well known around here. It may be just a neighbourhood izakaya, but it serves regional dishes made with ingredients shipped straigh…
I love exploring new menus, so I don’t keep many regular haunts, but Uoichi is a bit special in that sense. At a Japanese izakaya you can enjoy something new every time you go, so there’s no worry …
Whenever I go to Tokyo there’s someone who always looks after me. On his recommendation I visited an izakaya in Morishita, a shitamachi (old downtown) neighborhood on the east side of Tokyo. It’s c…
For someone like me, getting on in years, swamped with work and without a girlfriend, Christmas doesn’t mean any special plans. I was going to quietly drink some wine with cake as a snack after work, whe…
Uoichi is an izakaya I really do go to all the time. Being on good terms with the owner plays a big part, but the food is pretty great too, and since you can taste the local specialties of this region, it̵…
Uoichi is an izakaya I go to a lot for work. I use it more because of the relationship than because the food is anything special, but that doesn’t mean the food is bad. It’s just such a big place t…
Chinese food is really well developed in Japan, probably because so many overseas Chinese have settled there. Thanks to that, the general standard of Chinese cooking is far above Korea’s, but since few p…
An old friend was coming to visit Osaka, so I offered to be the guide. The main goal of this trip was Kyoto rather than Osaka, but since we were also planning to swing by Kobe while we were at it, we booked ou…
I’ve lived in this town for a while now ^_^ and there’s one izakaya I could call my regular spot, if you stretch it a bit. It’s no amazing destination restaurant, but it’s not bad for f…
I think this is my first post in almost three months since the one in early January. I really haven’t been active for a long time. If anyone was waiting for my blog to come back – probably no one, …
Whenever I get together with friends in Tokyo, it’s always Shibuya or Shinjuku. That’s because they’re easy to get to. Even among people who work in Tokyo, a lot of them live in Saitama, west…
This is the place that got recommended to me as a good izakaya for an evening out in Okinawa. It’s near the hotel I stayed at, and if you show your hotel key card they knock half off the food right there…