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 …
It’s a soba place I’ve been to before, but I went again this time. It’s a shame I can’t post somewhere new, but with a friend visiting, I have to stick to safe bets. We left the onsen r…
Japanese companies have year-end parties (bonenkai) too, but they work a little differently from Korea. The biggest difference is probably that you have to pay your own way to attend a company event. I prefer …
Every so often, work takes you to some high-end restaurant you never once thought of going to yourself. Horaiso is said to be a place used mostly by political and business bigwigs, but it doesn’t even ap…
Yesterday was Japan’s eel-eating day, a bit like Korea’s boknal. Just as we eat samgyetang on boknal, it’s meant to be a day to eat eel in summer and get your strength back, but really itR…
While deciding where to go in Kyoto, I settled on Japanese for lunch and Italian for dinner. There’s really only one Italian place that represents Kyoto, so that choice was easy, but there are so many fa…
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…
So here it is, finally my last Kyoto post. ^_^ Having come all the way to Kyoto, I felt I’d been eating pretty carelessly so far, so I went looking for a kamameshi place with a good reputation on Tabelog…
I introduced this place the year before last, I think. It’s famous for Kyoto’s local cuisine, yet oddly it hardly shows up in guidebooks. Last time an SD card problem wiped out a whole bunch of my …
When work gets so busy it gives me a headache, I have to step out for some fresh air no matter how little time I have. Not that I can just drop what I’m doing and run off, but helping out with work in a …
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, …