Another day of this week, another visit to Muromachi Coredo. Today, working clockwise brought us to Bou-ya (and I say ‘us’ because I was pleasantly accompanied by Ponkan). I was super-pleased to realize that this is a branch of the well-rated yakiniku-ya I wanted to try during the Hongo project, but found them closed and […]
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Hantejiya, Yurakucho (韓豚屋 有楽町店)
Y’know, ages ago I stopped in to another branch of this Korean pork-BBQ specialist chain for lunch (where I had cold vegetarian noodles, but hey). I regretted not being able to bring you a picture of the sign, a big internally-lit cartoon pig head that shoots steam from its nostrils. I don’t regret that any […]
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Ojori, Tokyo
Me – Korean food – confusion. Seriously, what is great Korean food? What would it entail? A subtle blend of herbs and spices? The highest quality produce? An ass-load of pepper? I have a bad feeling that if great Korean food came right up to me and seared my tongue off, I probably wouldn’t know […]
Ichiryu, Akasaka (一龍)
Open 24 hours, 7 days a week, this Korean place seems to serve its limited menu mainly to Koreans working in the Akasaka area (of which there are many, especially at night. That’s why there were various tables of women with big hair and fur coats even late at night.). It’s tasty and soothing, a […]
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Hantejiya, Kanda (韓豚屋)
This will be a boring post. Watch out. Coming back from a big vacation and eating nothing but European food for a week, I actually feel…sated. Usually I want to eat some meat, or pasta or desserts, but this week, not so much. It seems like a good opportunity to reflect and eat less, despite […]
Bibinba, Marunouchi
We all have to make sacrifices. At the grave risk of minimizing those of others, one of my recent sacrifices has been to eat lunch at a bunch of mediocre-looking places under the rail tracks in Marunouchi just so I could say I’ve been to all of them. Bibinba is one of those places, or […]
Bomu, Ebisu (韓国居酒屋ボム)
Well, another Friday night, another Korean diner dinner. This was unfortunately way less good (if I may use such language in your erudite company) than Wansu; I kepｔ looking at the menu in the hope of finding some of the things that I ate at the other place. No relation, so I guess it’s unrealistic, […]
Yuboku, Marunouchi (遊牧, Shin Maru 5)
My friends, I believe I have uncovered the secret of receiving a good and worthwhile lunch in the Otemachi Metro Area (OMA, not to be confused with 鮪で有名な大間市). It is a simple secret, but one that has been known to man since the beginning of time. Pay for it. You get what you pay for. […]
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Hien, Roppongi
Tasty Korean takeout, most well-known for being the first floor under Cafe 8 (which is most well-known for being the Chinese place with the wacky decor…). I’ve had the chapchedon too many times. It’s something like harusame cooked in sauce, with vegetables, on rice. I had the yukedon one time; raw beef with raw egg […]
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Iruchi, Roppongi (Nishi Azabu)
Recently alerted to the entry of this place to the lunch scene, I fooled a friend into trekking down to Nishi Azabu for some Korean luvvin’. No, it’s not a barber shop, but it IS a tasteful and modern basement space serving chige and bibimbap that meets or exceeds expectations. The menu is a little […]