After all that speechifying last week about the last work day of the year and the relative freedom to go anywhere for lunch, the first day of vacation naturally brought with it a trip to a new restaurant. This Coca is a branch of a bigger one right by Bic Camera that specializes in Thai […]
Thai
- Jinbocho
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Green Phad Thai, Jinbocho
Recent comments have implied that I rarely venture out of the Otemachi Metro Area (or Mon-Naka, I suppose). Nothing could be further from the truth, but I do understand that interesting posts get lost in the daily crush of lunch options. Fortunately it will only be a few more weeks until the end of the […]
- Otemachi
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Bangkok Express, Otemachi
Raising the Boring Post indicator to Amber Alert. If we’ve ever talked about Thai food, you know how much I like the Tokyo Thai chain Tinun. Oddly, I see that I haven’t been to a branch since I started writing this blog, which is a real oversight. If you choose your branch carefully (avoid Yoyogi), […]
- Kanda
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Chok Di, Kanda (โชคดี)
With apologies to all fully and partially Thai readers, because I really love the country, did you know that in Thailand it’s polite to crap? Ugh, this is in poor taste already. But seriously, it’s very polite to say ‘crap’ after practically every sentence if you’re a man (pronounced with an almost vanishing ‘r’ and […]
Papaya Leaf, Marunouchi
Hands up, who remembers the Coneheads? Yeah, my hand’s not really up either – that stuff was mainly before my time (or after it, if you consider that I’ve never been the type to stay up late enough to watch SNL). But I definitely remember that the early coneheads had a few catchphrases like “France…we […]
- Kanda
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Jumpee, Kanda
Before we get started, can I divert for an unrelated thing:Stuff Parisians Like is a funny blog. It’s openly ripped off from Stuff White People Like, but covers a group that I’m not part of and a place I’m interested in. OK, on to today’s dining adventure. Decayed and rotten fish is a great thing, […]
Pui, Kiba
The whole team here at EOITwJ has done a LOT of scouting missions around the greater Monzennakacho area (the ‘metro area’ we like to call it). Outside the main regions, there isn’t usually much to see, and things don’t come and go the way they do on the Monnaka back streets either. So when we […]
Monsoon, Minami Funabashi
Not exactly a name to conjure with, Monsoon…for me it brings up memories of a trip to Tokyo a long, long time ago (relatively) in a distinctly weird period of my life. I had lunch with my former boss, generally known as Indian John, which is weird enough in itself – careful reflection over the […]
- Otemachi
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Bamboo, Otemachi
Ladies and gentlemen… I present to you after weeks of searching a pretty good restaurant in an Otemachi basement. And it’s Ethnic! Bamboo is in the long, long, forbiddingly long and crowded corridors of the Otemachi Building (creative names abound here). It’s in a strange place where the walls of the canyon press in a […]
- Ginza
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The Siam, Ginza (ザ サイアム)
I’m starting to feel like I chose the wrong blog as my inspiration. Eating Out In Tokyo? More like Rude About Food… 4 out of 5 dentists agree, The Siam is not a tasty restaurant. As we received one tepid dish after another (fresh spring rolls, tom yum goong, shrimp cakes, yum woon sen, green […]