Chibakiya ramen, Kasai ()

Aaaaaah, relaxing bike rides to the countryside for ramen. You know what really puts the icing on that cake? Making sure the store is open first. I arrived in North Kasai to find that the ‘closed on Tuesdays’ policy at my target shop doesn’t apply on the occasional Monday in summer. After a brief interlude […]

TGI Friday’s, Shinagawa

I’ve been accused of a willingness to blog anything. That’s pretty true, although I’ve never stooped to the level implied by the original comment by writing about a convenience store. This is close… So we were hanging out with Todd and his family, and after we got tired of eating whipped cream-jalapeno chips and drinking […]

Ohara et CIE

Many years ago I visited the confusingly Irish/Japanese-named Ohara (and who knows what the CIA means either?) as one of the very last lunches I ever ate as a Roppongi-based worker. Reading that review gives me more confidence in my much-derided one-visit policy – it was mainly the same when we went for dinner, although […]