locomoco in Shibuya
Even after buying a book on Tokyo’s good eats and flipping through it, Shibuya doesn’t really have many places worth going to. As befits a young people’s neighborhood, most of the famous spot…
Even after buying a book on Tokyo’s good eats and flipping through it, Shibuya doesn’t really have many places worth going to. As befits a young people’s neighborhood, most of the famous spot…
Just because a place is a chain with branches everywhere doesn’t mean it’s as bland as McDonald’s. That’s especially true in Japan: at places like Pepper Lunch, the tendon (tempura rice…
For someone like me who cares about bang for the buck, the favorite kind of place has to be somewhere cheap and tasty. Same deal since coming to Japan.. On top of that, with the move and everything, I had to l…
Ginza, glittering with luxury brands and upscale department stores, and Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo’s kitchen, couldn’t be more different in image, but in reality they’re very close to each ot…
Lately I bought a book of 500 really good ramen shops, and I’ve been making the rounds of the famous ones. But being famous doesn’t mean a shop actually serves good ramen. Prime examples are Kyush…
No photos attached, sorry T.T Don Quijote is a big discount store — the Korean equivalent would be Homeplus or E-Mart. I heard the owner is Korean.. maybe that’s why the store’s jingle has some Kor…
Chiba gets pretty much no coverage in the usual guidebooks, so I dug through Yahoo! Japan’s gourmet listings, made a note of a place that looked decent, and gave it a try. The result: a flop. Sigh. Once …
Besides the anpan some people call “Lee Byung-chul bread” (supposedly a favourite of the Samsung founder), Ginza Kimuraya sells loads of different breads. One of them is this castella. There’…
By “wine in Japan” I don’t mean Japanese-made wine. ^_^;; I just want to talk a bit about the wine that’s sold in Japan. Wine culture took root in Japan much earlier than in Korea, and …
Taishoken is a famous ramen shop that’s been in business for 40 years, tucked away in a corner of Ikebukuro. Apparently it’s No. 1 in the Ikebukuro ramen rankings.. ^_^; Unusually, this place is on…
On day two in Ueno, shop after shop let me down. Maybe they were all on holiday… A whole bunch of Ueno’s famous places were closed at the same time. Futaba, Horaiya, Ueno Yabu Soba, Rengyokuan and …
I made a whirlwind budget trip to Tokyo over my summer vacation in August. I went with a friend who, sadly, doesn’t like fish, so we had to pick only places that served dishes without fish… well…