What’s a dandolo? I presume it’s something Italian, but I’m not going to look it up, because I find my reimaging funnier. It reminds of the word ‘dandle’ and a quick google of that yielded not the song I was thinking of, but some results for dolls with ‘rump actuated sound generators’. That’s a good […]
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Sol Amigo, Kanda
The recently Asia-jet-setting friend formerly known as Preacher, or sometimes Cheese Farmer, is here on a business trip (which we hope will be a frequent event) and we went out to eat. I finally made good on my desire to drag someone up to Kanda at night! It’s very bright and busy, but in a […]
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Southern Dining, Yoga
After getting off the train in Sakura Shinmachi to look for a place to eat lunch, I have the following observation: the best thing to do is to start walking, and don’t stop until you get to Yoga. Yoga is a pleasant and leafy suburb in the (to me) Far West of Tokyo. Other people […]
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Gyosai Tozai, Kanda (魚采東西)
After a brief respite, Kanda lunches resumed today with this recommendation from Waka-pon, herself resuming in the office after a short trip to the country. I do love it when people recommend places, especially when they’re new to me, and even more when they help to fill in areas on the map that are somewhat […]
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Kyusuke, Ningyocho (久助)
We interrupt this interminable series of posts on eel in Kanda to bring you something that is fundamentally different (at least until lunch!) – oden in Nigyocho. Yesterday feature a few trying times at the office, and I felt a deep need to eat out rather than salad (the verb) at home. Since I was […]
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Tanuki/Ajiwai, Yurakucho (たぬき / 味わい,有楽町)
Party at the moon tower! Or the next best thing – Yurakucho yakitori with McNoonan! I also just read up on the real moontowers in Texas, if you’re interested. McNoonan is back from his Layoff World Tour – Hawaii, Boston, Disneyworld. This is a world tour like the World Series is a world series, but […]
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Jirokichi, Kanda (次郎吉)
Ooog. Big bowl of noodles, hot hot day, patient is comatose. Yahoo says it’s only 90/32 degrees, but I don’t believe it. I was out there. Same general area of Kanda today. Actually the same street, not the threatened pizza place around the corner. There’s always tomorrow. Or Monday. But I thought of a fun […]
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Hongokutei, Kanda (本石亭)
It’s always Kanda. This could be a new pattern – have a bit of a stroll up there for lunch, try to go to a different place every day…oh, I’m already in that pattern. Let’s keep the streak going. Today even managed to stretch to accomodate a special request; lunch with Gita and Zone started […]
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Bistro Taruya, Kanda (樽や)
There is beauty all around us, if we only look for it. Last night, frustrated by Friday’s unsuccessful attempt to by big-person shoes, I went to another branch of the same store. Lo, despite being only a quarter the size and located in a distinctly down-at-the-heels location next to an unused section of Ueno Yamanote […]
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Tika, Kanda
As Sato chan says here, 最近神田ばっかりです。今日も神田。Recently it’s always Kanda. Today was Kanda too. It didn’t start out that way. I had my bike, so I thought I’d go somewhere farther afield. I headed toward Akiba, didn’t see anything I really wanted to eat, got lost, and mysteriously popped out in my current favorite neighborhood on […]