Mazeru? Yes, yes I will. With an offer like that, how could you not get excited? It means ‘stir’, and the implication of the name and the sign is that you’re going to get maze-soba (pronounced mah-zay), a lot like the junk from Junk Garage, for example. And that is a gooood thing. I’m fond […]
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Fish Center, Misaki (三崎さかなセンター)
Misaki is one of the two famous fresh-tuna ports of Japan, along with Oma in the north. But today we were here for other reasons. You had arranged a schedule that included lunch, some sightseeing, and now a trip to the Misaki fish center. Here, I’m pondering what made us come here, and why his […]
Hakata Ramen Center, Iidabashi (博多ラーメンセンター)
Meeting everyone’s favorite ‘Cock is a good opportunity to explore rare neighborhoods. I mean, Kudanshita is rare for me, and he doesn’t go out to lunch. For some reason Ikaruga wasn’t doing maze-soba today, and I decided to boycott out of protest. As if all the other people in line cared. And on a back […]
Taniyan ramen, Monzennakacho (深川谷やんラーメン本店)
This is on the outskirts of Monnaka, where Kasaibashi Dori bends down to meet Eitai Dori and it’s hard to cross the street if you’re walking to work – which I was, for several years. And the grease and stains on the yellow awning here kept calling me. Plenty of evenings I’d wobble by on […]
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Edamura Liquors, Tsukishima (越後屋 枝村酒店)
Ahhh, the depths of summer, when lonely single men’s fancy’s turn’s to thought’s of Miss July! We stood right next to this calendar, and with the locals studiously ignoring us, had plenty of time to consider what day it was. Miss July may have been the most attractive thing about Edamura, Which is a classic-but-messier […]
Maruzen tempura, Morishita (満る善 まるぜん)
Occasional visitors to Japan (hi Mom and Dad) will recognize this tiny, fading place as the one where we had lunch one day around 2005. Or not. It’s in the row of places across from the north entrance to Morishita station, along with Fuji. It’s a real get-there-before-they-die sort of place. So many of them […]
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Ooki, Asakusa (大木洋食店)
I rolled around for hours in the heat, looking at and passing by lunch options one after another. Down a wide but empty street, Ooki stood out. Mostly by the way it retreated into the scenery, humbly nestling behind the tree. It was already 1:30, and there was no sign of life inside except a […]
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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 […]
Bunzou, Otemachi (鍛冶屋 文蔵)
Did I mention that we went to Honoka? I think we went to Honoka. Did we? Certainly we took the train after. Or something that looks like a train. With all our friends. They love us, just sitting there giggling, speaking broken Japanese, maybe taking the odd picture. Maybe, hell. It’s OK, we’re foreign. Well, […]