I confess, I’ve been dragging my feet on putting up this post because it makes me terribly sad to look at all these photos and realise that I can’t eat this again till I next visit Tokyo. And who knows…

• June 8, 2015
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Fact #1: Deep-fried food is wonderful when done right. Fact #2: Where food is concerned, the Japanese ALWAYS do it right. And then some. Our tempura meal at Tenichi was something of a life-changing experience, not least because I’d previously…

• June 2, 2015
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Apparently the done thing when you pilgrimage to Tsukiji Market for lunch is to line up for hours for a meal at Sushi Dai. I do not line up for hours for anything (unless you count the hello kitty related…

• May 27, 2015
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Does anyone else remember the mentions of “cold tinned tongue” from the picnic descriptions in Enid Blyton’s school stories or Famous Five books? As a child, that particular picnic food always gave me pause. Everything else sounded so delicious (peaches in syrup! lemonade!…

• May 26, 2015
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Let’s just get this picture out of the way early: Shabusen is a pretty popular shabu-shabu place inside the Ginza Core building. So popular that it has one outlet on the 2nd floor and one in Basement 2. We’ve always…

• May 25, 2015
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Just a quick observation about the random lunch we ate in Omotesando. We stopped at the Gyre building which is known for its famous tenants like the MoMA Store and Ukai-Tei, a high-end restaurant. The place we picked was called 丸角,…

• May 25, 2015
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