Cheonggyecheon Scenery, Summer 2022
Around then a Cheonggyecheon meme was going around in a game called Blue Archive.. well.. anyway, here are some photos I took wandering around the area. Sky Sky Cheonggyecheon A fish is swimming. Is that a …
Around then a Cheonggyecheon meme was going around in a game called Blue Archive.. well.. anyway, here are some photos I took wandering around the area. Sky Sky Cheonggyecheon A fish is swimming. Is that a …
58 Hokkien Soba is a Chinese-style ramen shop from the owner who used to run Cheung Kee Noodle House, the Hong Kong-style wonton noodle place. The entrance It’s down in the basement. The old Cheung Kee …
Good Stuff Eatery made the news before it even opened, with its hydroponic organic vegetables and its Obama burger.. it opened in a fairly eye-catching spot by Gangnam Station, with a flashy interior. It’…
A friend of mine went off to Hokkaido and came back with all kinds of souvenirs for me. There were so many that I thought I’d sort through them here. Chikuwa Pan Chikuwa is basically a fish cake, the so…
Wasabeef with the most wasabi ever It’s a Wasabeef that blows your sinuses wide open, but I don’t think there’s any need to eat it this spicy. It’s a novelty product, really… Sev…
This was back when COVID still was not over, so before flying out I went to Akasaka to get a PCR test. Harry Potter Cafe.. I had no idea there was a full-blown cafe like this.. I must have turned up early tha…
One of Yokohama’s local ramen varieties is something called sanmamen. In Japan “sanma” usually means Pacific saury, but the taste has nothing to do with saury at all. The sign The shop has a…
In Hamamatsucho there’s a place called Donghae Banjeom, or Tokai Hanten in Japanese, and since it just looks like a neighbourhood diner I’d been ignoring it all this time. This is the place Who wo…
Yokohama has no shortage of famous ramen shops, but I heard about one that serves ramen from first thing in the morning, so off I went. This is the place Inside It was morning, so there were hardly any custo…
I think this was my third time at Matsutora — at that point, doesn’t that make me a regular? Or so I like to tell myself.. Fruit If you pick out a fruit, they’ll even build a cocktail around it. I…
One thing led to another and I ended up in Shibuya. A view like this.. Shibuya never changes. A place like this It’s down in the PARCO basement, and the queue is pretty long. I turned up after the lunc…
I’d known for ages that there was a place called Yakiniku Like in Shinbashi. Here’s what it looks like. The grill plate Simple, just as you’d expect from solo yakiniku. Tablet ordering The…