French in Nishiazabu: ohara et cie
The highlight of this trip was a restaurant in Nishiazabu, currently the chicest spot in Tokyo. It’s a quiet neighborhood right next to Roppongi, full of hidden gems. I went to one of them, a place calle…
The highlight of this trip was a restaurant in Nishiazabu, currently the chicest spot in Tokyo. It’s a quiet neighborhood right next to Roppongi, full of hidden gems. I went to one of them, a place calle…
I visited my friend who lives in Shirokane again. We see each other often, so I already know this neighborhood pretty well. From what I hear it’s a bit of a tough place to live, but well.. that kind of t…
I got to Tokyo around 11, and even though I had a lunch appointment at 1, I still needed a little palate-warmer first -_- so I headed straight to Ginza. The plan was to finally try a top-notch shio ramen speci…
These days I’m going to Tokyo on a regular schedule, about once every two months. I’ve got lots of friends there, there are plenty of places I want to try, and I get to catch the latest trends. Thi…
I’d helped someone I know with some computer stuff and got a meal out of it, but since it wasn’t anything major, we went somewhere reasonable: Jasmin, a cafe-cum-restaurant. It’s run by the s…
On the last weekend of August, right in the thick of the heat, I took a trip out to the Osaka area. The theme of this trip was to enjoy what was left of the summer. Honestly, this summer was so brutally hot th…
I really love outlet shopping, so whenever there’s an outlet near wherever I’m travelling, I end up dropping by. This time, when I went to Kobe to burn through the last of the summer, there was a s…
Someone I got to know somehow through work was hosting a Calera wine dinner, so I went along. Calera is the pricey wine people call the Romanée-Conti of California -_-. Apparently the winery’s owner trai…
I was craving hamo (pike conger), which is in season in summer, so I went to a place called Namhae Bada that’s supposed to be famous for Namdo-style seafood from the southwest coast. It’s near the …
There used to be plenty of foodie meetups in the club I’m part of, so most of the time I could just quietly tag along. These days, maybe because everyone’s busy or because of the recession, there a…
Something came up in Suwon, so I headed down there for a bit. It was all very last-minute, so I never got to have dinner, and on the way back I asked the taxi driver if there was any good place to eat around S…
It hadn’t been long since lunch, but I’d more or less digested it by then -_- so off I went to a ganjang gejang (soy-marinated crab) place that’s supposedly famous in Insadong. It’s cal…