Things I Bought in Tokyo
There is so much to buy in Tokyo. Of course, not every shop sells good stuff and you need to know a few key spots, but this time I discovered the charm of Kappabashi, the street that specialises in kitchenware…
There is so much to buy in Tokyo. Of course, not every shop sells good stuff and you need to know a few key spots, but this time I discovered the charm of Kappabashi, the street that specialises in kitchenware…
After a short three-night, four-day trip, on my way back to Korea through Narita Airport I had one last bowl of ramen. Haneda has Rokurinsha and Setagaya, but at Narita there is really only Kukai. Gyoza…
Before coming to Japan I put together a list of ramen shops, and a few places caught my eye. One of them was Japanese Soba Noodles Tsuta. And the other one, which I picked after some deliberation as a late-nig…
On this Tokyo trip I have been going mostly around restaurants I had long wanted to try. The reason is that I have no friend to go restaurant-hopping with. At a place I know well I can just eat what I want and…
Before coming to Japan this time, I went through the whole ranking of dessert shops in Tokyo. There were a few notable changes, and among them Occitanial at Suitengumae Station was the only one with reasonably…
On this trip I put a ramen shop back on the itinerary for the first time in a while. Because it is delicious, obviously! And also because it is an easy place to go alone. A few years ago I did a big tour of To…
There are a few places in Tokyo I really love, and one of them is Kurofunetei. Tokyo has plenty of more refined or more upscale Western-style restaurants, but for some reason this is the one that clicks with m…
Aux Delices de Dodine, a name that is hard to even remember, is a popular French restaurant in Hamamatsucho. They do a 1,000-yen lunch, and it is generous enough that the office workers from around the neighbo…
The older I get, the more I seem to go only to places I have already been. It may just be the process of turning into a stubborn old man stuck in his ways, but honestly, it is also because there are not many p…
I tend to prefer the Incheon-Narita flights. Haneda-Tokyo has a strong business feel to it, more like popping over for an errand and heading straight back than actually traveling. Incheon and Narita are both b…
At the end of February I had a reason to go to Japan. Not to eat, but on some business. I finally got to use the Asiana Lounge at Incheon Airport for the first time.. I had made the card ages ago but my busy s…
By now I go to Jinjin so often that I deliberately skip the introduction. This time it was a gathering for drinking champagne. The main event of the day Jacques Selosse Initial. Apparently it is famous…