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Maisen

Jingumae 4-8-5, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Phone +81-33-470-0071

Here’s another fantastic food experience from our Japan trip back in ’07.  Having an insatiable propensity towards pork, I was dying to sample some bona fide tonkatsu in its native surrounds.  We timed our visit to Harajuku with dinner at the Lonely Planet- recommended [...]

Written by ElegantGourmand on September 24th, 2009 | Tags: , | 9 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Han Guuk Guan Korean/Chinese Restaurant

13a Victoria Street, Melbourne Phone (03) 9639 1747

I love finding great food served in bizarre and hidden away restaurants, and they don’t come any more bizarre or hidden away than Han Guuk Guan Korean/Chinese Restaurant. The official address is 13a Victoria Street (near Exhibition) but it’s not easy [...]

Written by ElegantGourmand on September 23rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , | 12 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Coconut House

449 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Phone (03) 9329 6401

Malaysian Chicken Laksa ($8.50) comes with sliced fresh chicken meat, bean curd puffs and vegetables

If there’s one noodle dish that gives my palate a boner as much as ramen, it’s laksa.  I would wake up in a cold sweat in the middle [...]

Written by ElegantGourmand on September 22nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | 16 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

The Tram Stop Dutch Pancakes

Queen Victoria Market On the corner of Queen and Therry Sts, Melbourne

O, be some other name! What's in a name? That which we call a poffertjes by any other name would smell as sweet

 The Dutch have such a delightful way with words.  If the name poffertjes doesn’t get you [...]

Written by mellie on September 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , , | 3 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

JAPAN: Gion Mitokou

Address unknown but it’s on the west side of Hanamikoji Street, just south of Shijo, Kyoto

Kyoto is an absolutely fascinating city, known for it’s Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines, palaces, gardens, architecture, culture, food and of course, geisha.  We’d spent much of the day roaming the streets of Kyoto, [...]

Written by mellie on September 18th, 2009 | Tags: , , | 6 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post
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