Loulan Xiang Chu, Hamamatsu
I was out in Hamamatsu for the day, and while wondering where to have lunch, I ended up at a Chinese restaurant I had heard was famous. The building entrance A very modern-looking building. The restaurant i…
I was out in Hamamatsu for the day, and while wondering where to have lunch, I ended up at a Chinese restaurant I had heard was famous. The building entrance A very modern-looking building. The restaurant i…
The biggest specialty of the Hamamatsu area is unagi pie, a pastry with eel powder kneaded into it, and it sells well all over Japan. It is a bit too sweet for my taste, so I prefer other local specialties, bu…
I arrived in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka over the New Year holidays, and it was already almost dinner time. So I decided to have ramen at an old ramen shop nearby. The front entrance The place has been in business …
Over the New Year holidays I had a chance to go to the Gotemba Premium Outlets. While wondering where to have lunch, I went with the safe bet, Uogashi Sushi. It is a popular place – or rather, there are …
In Asakusa there is the golden Asahi Beer headquarters shaped like a beer mug, and right next to it is an izakaya-slash-restaurant run by Asahi Beer. I had heard many times that the beer tastes amazing there s…
Walking around Harajuku, I spotted a newly opened candy shop, Candy Artisans The Red Balloon. The front entrance There was some kind of big steel table inside with a crowd gathered around it, so I went in o…
Cafe Kaila, the restaurant that came over from Hawaii, has moved from Asakusa to Harajuku. Apparently the lines got so long that the neighbors complained loudly. When business is that good, moving up to the ma…
I had long heard the rumour that one of the best soba shops in all of Tokyo was tucked away in a corner of Asakusa, and I already knew exactly where it was, but every time I went it was closed, so I only got t…
Kita-Senju is on my running route, so I end up there quite a lot. This time I visited Matador, a place famous for its gyukotsu (beef bone) ramen. Matador means bullfighter, which may or may not be a fitting na…
I was wondering where to go for my weekend gourmet outing and decided on a soba place near home. It is a handmade soba shop called Tsune, and somehow it looked like it had some serious skill behind it. The se…
I went to the cinema in Kiba to see The Hobbit, a film I had personally been really looking forward to. It is one of the few IMAX 3D cinemas in Tokyo. Maybe because it is a bit out of the way, booking was easy…
After round one at Toriki, we hopped in a taxi and headed over to Bebop’s place. Rikuro Ojisan cheesecake A cake Bebop brought back from a business trip to Osaka. Similar cakes have started showing up…