KAO KAO KAO, a Thai Restaurant in Shinbashi
A Thai place opened right in front of Makochan, so I popped over for a quick lunch. The front entrance Thai style all the way. The King of Thailand… The menu The nice thing is you can put your meal to…
A Thai place opened right in front of Makochan, so I popped over for a quick lunch. The front entrance Thai style all the way. The King of Thailand… The menu The nice thing is you can put your meal to…
The cake shop at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Nihonbashi sells an incredible cake. It is called KUMO, and everyone says the queue is so long that it is hard to get one. KUMO It means “cloud” in Japanese. Th…
Makochan is a great yakiton izakaya, but with COVID going on it was hard to justify a visit. Then I heard they were doing takeout, so I went and picked some up myself. If this is what it takes to eat something…
Rousokuya is so famous that you probably already know about it. The entrance By the way, rousoku means candle. The entrance They also do a chilled tantanmen as a seasonal menu item, apparently. An ad announc…
A junior of mine lives in Hachioji, so I went out to see him. Mitsui Outlet Park It’s a place called Tama, apparently near Hachioji, though I don’t really know the geography around there.. anyway,…
Here are some scenery photos from Tokyo. Tokyo Tower Maybe because the Olympics were happening around here, they’d done a special Olympic light-up. Nice weather. Ridiculously hot, though.. Daimon I ne…
With Uber Eats doing so well, there are quite a few delivery-only ramen places around. With delivery ramen it’s one of two things: they either cook the noodles and send them, or they send you raw noodles…
Nichirei’s authentic stir-fried chahan They say it’s the best-selling fried rice in Japan, and it really is the classic of the genre.. It’s good, so this is usually the only fried rice I buy…
Yotsuba Otona no Camembert & Blue Everything in the Hokkaido cheese line is good, and the blue cheese works as a drinking snack too. Asahi Beery Kaoru Craft Asahi’s low-alcohol drink Beery is a hit…
Posting a variety of desserts. Cookies baked in a wood-fired kiln They’re sold at a place called Fukushimaya.. (nothing to do with Fukushima Prefecture..) and they taste pretty good. The uneven baking s…
I think this was probably something I bought at the Kagawa Prefecture antenna shop. The quality is pretty decent. Ichiran Ichiran is famous for a cup ramen that has no toppings at all, just broth and noodles…
Fujiya’s “Bataa Yaichatta?” (Baked the Butter?) Hmm, it seems a bit too sweet. Mos Burger Potato It’s harder than the usual potato snacks. The taste and the size seem about the same, …