What would you think if, say, McCormick had a fast food chicken place? (I grant you this won’t resonate unless you’re American. McCormick is probably America’s biggest manufacturer of spices. At least it’s the only one I can name, and that usually means something. Like my memory is going.) And they played only 70’s rock? […]
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Maisen, Tokyo (まい泉、大丸東京駅)
As a memorialist, I have little value. By this, I mean that I can’t remember things worth a damn. It used to be that I was the kind of person who could go from one room to another, then realize an hour later that I’d forgotten the thing I went for. Now, in our hyper-digitalized […]
Tazumura, Otemachi (たづむら,OAZO 5)
Welcome to the first installment of Tonkatsu Tuesdays. Geez, I thought of all sorts of interesting things while I was eating today, but now I’ve forgotten and can’t promise that this will be interesting at all. Not to put too fine a point on it, I visited the tonkatsu place in Oazo that Ponkan and […]
Katsukichi, Marunouchi (かつ吉,新丸５階)
Probably a boring post, but let’s see where it takes us, OK? At least it will be tangential, I can promise you that. On a sunny late-summer day that only increased the twinges of autumn that have been percolating in the air all week, I asked Ponkan to go out for lunch. She said that […]
Marushige, Kanda (丸重)
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, pork. Today felt like a vegetable day, then a meat day, and finally, by the time I left the office, I knew it was going to be a Fried Meat day. And since I somewhat disdain lesser fried meats like mince-katsu, that usually means tonkatsu (not that it’s that often). After wavering a little […]
Katsugen, Tokyo (かつ玄)
Over the past few years, I’ve actually come to believe the pseudo-medical concept that your body will ‘tell you what to eat’. If I eat nothing but vegetables for a few days, I develop single-minded urges for meat. Despite some obvious meat consumption over the weekend (I remember something about stewed pork belly not 12 […]
Ikoi, Tokyo
Anonymous, I stand by my amended statement that nothing good comes from Nagoya except your aunt and grandmother and miso katsu (and you when you come back from holiday!). Ikoi’s miso katsu is different from those I’ve had in the past; some would say worse. I’m trying my darndest to be positive, so I wouldn’t […]
Ikkon Buta, Kanda (一献豚、神田洞門)
Hitsumabushi is a unique dish of eel that’s famous in Nagoya (along with miso katsu!). ‘Famous in Nagoya’ is actually enough of a tipoff in my book that it’s not good, because (I’m prepared for backlash here) there’s really nothing interesting in Nagoya (please prove me wrong. I’ll visit any time.). The point of the […]
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Santa, Shinjuku (三太)
Today’s a cooking day (though with a little less chicken and a little more attention to food safety, thank you very much), but I was reminded of something and thought I’d fire off a quick and gratuitous post. Last time my parents came to Japan (Hi Mom! Hi Dad!), we were nearly stuck in Nikko […]