Supermarket Food, around June 2022
Nissin’s Shinpuku Saikan yakimeshi Not bad at all. And this one is the ramen Well… perfectly recreating the flavour of the original shop is a tall order, but you do get a rough sense of “ah, so t…
Nissin’s Shinpuku Saikan yakimeshi Not bad at all. And this one is the ramen Well… perfectly recreating the flavour of the original shop is a tall order, but you do get a rough sense of “ah, so t…
Someone like me has so many restaurants left to try that I rarely go back to a place twice, but that is not so easy when I am with friends. If anything, we end up going somewhere we know will not disappoint. K…
O to U is a really popular spot, so I’d been before, and this time I dropped in once more. Here’s the place. The main street of Motomachi is lined with historic old favourites… and since thi…
Making the rounds of good restaurants is a hobby of mine, but some days I just walk into whatever catches my eye on the street. This was one of those days. A place like this Not a particularly delicious place…
Mihashi is that anmitsu specialist in Ueno where you have to queue up, and it turns out they’ve opened a branch inside Tokyo Station. Anmitsu The kanten, the sweet bean paste, the gyuhi and everything e…
Yudetaro is just an ordinary soba chain. You see them all over central Tokyo. Roughly like this.. They didn’t do takeout originally, but as the COVID period dragged on they started that too. This kind o…
Here are some photos I took while going back and forth. Scenery Scenery Pier scenery This is a working fishing port where they land the catch, so there are plenty of fishing boats. Fishing port scenery A c…
I happened to hear about a place famous for its kakigori (shaved ice), so I went to check it out. This is the place.. A neat, tidy little cafe. The sign Apparently the soki soba and the shaved ice are what i…
Some of you may already know it, but there’s a manga called Yaiteru Futari. It’s about a couple doing BBQ in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, and it seems to be pretty popular. One of the spots that gets a qui…
Yamamototei is a Japanese restaurant that gets a lot of tourists. It sits in a spot called Bentenjima in Hamamatsu and serves fresh seafood. This area is proper countryside, so it’s a bit surprising that…
Yowanai Lemon-do, the alcohol-free one They’ve recreated the taste of a lemon sour really well. McDonald’s Big Mac Hadn’t had one in ages, and it hit the spot. The Korean food corner at AEO…
Just putting up some photos I took while out on a walk. Scenery Scenery This is a place called Nagisaen. Apparently it’s known for hosting concerts and for camping. Nagisaen scenery Nagisaen scenery …