Sometimes you just have a hankerin’ fer meat. And when that feelin’ comes on yuh, it’s mighty powerful. That’s when the sheep start lookin’ nervous, if yuh take mah meanin’. If your meat craving is for chickenz, and you’re in Monzennakacho, yer place of choice should be Edoko. It’s homey, authentic, and tasty. It actually […]
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Hong Kong Shokufu, Kanda (香港食府)
In today’s short break in the rain, I really enjoyed walking around Kanda. It’s like 4 blocks and 40 years away from Marunouchi. Just great. That will require some explaining, since I’ve previously said how ordinary it is. First, I managed to have the shrimp in chili sauce that I’ve been thinking of for ages. […]
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Toushe, Tokyo (多謝,北町ほろよい通り)
Japan is a different country, and there are different attitudes toward a number of things (plus they have a different word for everything!). One of the really weird ones there is…drunkenness. Public drunkenness. In Japan, it’s just OK! It’s fine to be that guy who’s too drunk to walk, thus just falls asleep on the […]
Beck’s Coffee Shop, Tokyo
Well, completism runs rampant, but I’m able to tick off another item on the under-track extravaganza. In my defence, I did go to a genuine fine-dining restaurant on Saturday (in case you missed it, nestled among the dross) and had never been to a Beck’s before. The oddest things about this Beck’s experience were as […]
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Steak Seitou, Tokyo
July 16th, 2009. 8:33 AM. Ding has pointed out that the reason I couldn’t find the website for this place was that I was spelling it wrong. A thousand pardons.________________________________________________________ Ahhhh, Japanese people are really into things. I love that cliche, especially when I get to live it. One of my newer colleagues recommended Saitou […]
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Tateshina Soba, Otemachi
You’ve been taught that business cards are of vital import in Japanese business life, right? I thought so. Now ponder what it means when a restaurant doesn’t have a card to give you, and in fact the very request sends the staff off in peals of laughter. I think it’s supposed to mean they’re too […]
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Ten Ten, Kanda (天天)
Man, Kanda is brutal around noon. You know I like to eat late, but Zoner is a pain about eating early. Today we compromised at 12, which turned out to be exactly the wrong thing to do. When we got up to Kanda at 12:15 (my brilliant idea), we were turned away from 4 places […]
Ikada, Monzen Nakacho (いかだ)
After the minor debacle of the grumpy grandma, I felt a little burned, but also a little hungry. Ever the glutton for punishment (see prior comments about needing to search to find those hidden diamonds), another sign piqued my interest. Ikada was equally a bit scary – a very normal izakaya on a very small […]
Gala, Tokyo (伽羅)
Well, notch off another one under the tracks. After this we’re down to branches of Kassen Ichiba, Takadaya, Beck’s Coffee and Nakau (oh, and one tiny noodle place). It’s going to be a slog, my friends. But we will persevere because…well, there’s nothing much better to do some days. This was very ordinary Chinese food. […]
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808 Lounge, Shimo Kitazawa
Ahhh, were we on a roll with this Shimo Kita trip or what? As a means of passing another hour, there was this Hawaiian bar. I like to think this was in honor of McNoonan, who just finished celebrating his layoff with 6 weeks in Hawaii, but in reality I’m a sucker for tiki bars! […]