Hainan Chifan in Akasaka
I hear Hainan Chifan has also opened a branch in Lotte Department Store in Korea. I guess you’d call it Singapore-style steamed chicken? Roughly like this Well, it was just okay. Edible. O…
I hear Hainan Chifan has also opened a branch in Lotte Department Store in Korea. I guess you’d call it Singapore-style steamed chicken? Roughly like this Well, it was just okay. Edible. O…
Somehow I keep ending up with reasons to be around Omotesando. This time I dropped by Toraya Café in the basement of Omotesando Hills. Interior decoration Being a long-established house, you can tell t…
There’s a caramel specialty shop in Harajuku called NUMBER SUGAR. Maybe because it’s so easy to get to, plenty of people from Korea have already been, and it gets recommended a lot on Instagram in …
Libertable is a cake shop that’s well known even within Tokyo. It already has counters in department stores, too. Since I’d come all the way to Akasaka, it would’ve been a shame to leave with…
Akasaka is home to Hie Shrine, a really big Shinto shrine. I was there that day for an acquaintance’s wedding. Main gate It even has its own escalator. Quite a big place to find right in the midd…
I somehow ended up staying at a hotel in central Tokyo. It’s in Nagatacho, and the layout was a bit unusual. The garden The room is Japanese-style inside, with a Japanese garden outside. I was su…
There’s a self-service kushiage place in Odaiba. It seems to be a fairly popular chain nationwide. The selling point is all-you-can-eat deep-fried skewers for 1,500 yen. Skewer ingredients Not a …
There’s a Din Tai Fung in Shiodome. The atmosphere is clean and tidy, which makes it a good spot for get-togethers. Forgot the exact name of this one… It was fine. Nothing special, but perf…
I heard there was a hidden soba gem in Gotanda, so I went to check it out. I’ve lived in Tokyo for a long time and figured I knew most of the good places, so it really surprised me that a spot this good …
In Ebisu there’s a place called Ebisu Yokocho, an alley-like spot packed with all sorts of drinking joints. It’s not as cheap as you’d expect and the food isn’t outstanding either, yet …
Kushitaro is a kushiyaki specialist with several branches around Shinjuku. I’ve been plenty of times already, so I’ll keep this one short. Seasonal menu Didn’t order it, though.  …
Now that I’m a middle-aged guy, I find myself at yakiniku places a lot. This time four of us old guys met up in Shinjuku and went for yakiniku. The place is called Mongsiri in Korean, which comes out as …