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Nihonbashi Zen

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 [...]

Written by mellie on December 30th, 2007 | Tags: , | 2 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Tsukiji Fish Market (Tokyo) – Frozen Tuna Auction

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 [...]

Written by mellie on December 22nd, 2007 | Tags: , , | 5 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Hato Sabure, Toshimaya

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 [...]

Written by ElegantGourmand on December 17th, 2007 | Tags: , , | 8 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Gyoza Stadium, Namco Namja Town

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 [...]

Written by ElegantGourmand on December 15th, 2007 | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Ramen Jiro

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 [...]

Written by ElegantGourmand on December 15th, 2007 | Tags: , | 10 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post
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