87 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne
Phone 03 9639 7050
Time to interrupt our Japan holiday posts with a Melbourne dining experience, although as you can see I haven’t veered too far from the current theme. We were craving a taste of the food from our recent trip, and decided that Nihonbashi Zen might satiate that need.
The restaurant [...]
3am is not a such an easy hour to wake. Bleary eyed and not quite conscious, EG and I dragged our sorry asses onto the streets of Ikebukuro to find ourselves a taxi. I had booked a tour of the famous Tsukiji Fish Market on the internet prior to departure, and we were a little [...]
5-min. walk from JR Kamakura Station east exit, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Tel: (0467) 250 810
http://www.hato.co.jp/ (Japanese only)
Kamakura is a popular tourist destination, less than an hour south of Tokyo in Kanagawa Prefecture. The town is historically important, as it was briefly the capital of Japan when Shogun Minamoto Yoritomo established his new government in the area [...]
Higashi-Ikebukuro 3-1-2 World Import Mart Building, 2nd Floor Sunshine City, Japan
Tel: (81-03) 5950 0765
http://www.namja.jp/
The Japanese sure have a thing for food-themed amusement parks. Whether it be ramen, ice-cream, okonomiyaki, or period style eateries, there will be an artificially created homage somewhere that pays tribute to a particular food.
Ikebukuro’s Gyoza Stadium was no exception. Located in [...]
Ah, the lengths that ramen addicts go to in order to find a cult noodle joint. That’s what we were asking ourselves (or at least Mel was asking me) as we wondered around the concrete neon jungle of Shinjuku for what seemed like hours. Foot-sore, hungry, and delirious from the incongruity of Japan’s address “system” [...]
680 Victoria Street, Richmond
Phone 03 9427 8500
It’s not that I’m hard up for blogging material - I have about a gazillion blog entries from Japan/Singapore just begging to be written. But when a foodie moment grabs you by the short and curlies, how can one resist?
Such a moment occurred a few weeks ago at a [...]
Ed’s recent post over at Tomato prompted me to proclaim “Meeee tooo!” and reveal that EG and I had also indulged in a little patisserie pleasure at the hands of Pierre Herme when in Tokyo recently. So what’s all the fuss about? Well these macarons have been lauded by the food media/blogs as being some [...]
2-14-21 Shinyokohama, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama-City 222-0033, Japan
Tel: (81-45) 471-0503
http://www.raumen.co.jp/english
My ramen obsession began when I first saw Juzo Itami’s 1985 comedy, Tampopo (Dandelion). Tagged as the first Japanese “noodle western”, this quirky film provided great insight into the importance of food in Japanese society as well as thoroughly exploring the ways in which to make a perfect [...]
