BBQ Olive Chicken Cafe
BBQ has made its way into Japan, and now they’ve opened in Hamamatsu too. There’s a Costco nearby, plus Xebio and mont-bell, so I stopped by while I was over there anyway. The place It feels more …
BBQ has made its way into Japan, and now they’ve opened in Hamamatsu too. There’s a Costco nearby, plus Xebio and mont-bell, so I stopped by while I was over there anyway. The place It feels more …
I heard there was a special ramen shop in Hamamatsu, so off I went. Daruma Seimenjo This is the place.. When I got there the queue was pretty long, so I waited about an hour before getting in. On the way̷…
Tenkin is a place in downtown Hamamatsu famous for its tendon. The line is long whenever you go, and when a place out in the provinces has people queuing, I trust it even more than the ones people line up for …
Lately, between work commitments and various other reasons, I just haven’t had many chances to eat out. And when I do go, it tends to be places where eating alone works. So I seem to be hitting the konbi…
The town centre of Toyohashi turned out to have a surprisingly solid food scene. When I went there was an event on called Hashigo Night, where you buy a coupon and get to eat and drink on the cheap. As a resul…
I doubt the name Toyohashi rings a bell for anyone… it sits at the far edge of Aichi Prefecture, close to Shizuoka, and it was the setting for the Japanese drama “Minna! Esper Dayo!” (Everyon…
When you think of Aichi, or Nagoya, one of the famous things is ankake spaghetti. So… ankake is a sauce you see a lot in Chinese cooking, and someone grafted it onto spaghetti, which makes it a sort of n…
I had some business in Hamamatsu, so off I went. The sky on the way there Hamamatsu has an air force base, so you see contrails all the time. They fly especially often when something like the G7 is on. What W…
There’s a bakery called Yamamoto Pan-ya in Ohiradai. Since I’d come all the way out to Ohiradai anyway, I dropped in here too. Shokupan Danish Bread Bread Baguette Bread Bread Choco cornet …
Ohiradai is the neighbourhood right next to Lake Sanaru. A well-off area, in other words.. I came to visit a good dessert shop in this neighbourhood. The place It’s a residential area, but the sun was a…
There is an area of Hamamatsu called Sanaru. It has a lake that formed naturally, and that lake is called Lake Sanaru. It is not all that far from central Hamamatsu, and since there is a park laid out around t…
I had some free time over the weekend, so I dropped by this park in Arai, Kosai. Rode my bike all the way around it. A place like this A typhoon had come through the day before, and yet, somehow, there were s…