Shop 10, The Strand Arcade
250 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
The Strand Arcade is a small, bland, mall-like adjunct of Myer’s Lonsdale Street store. Home to a Dick Smith, Gloria Jeans, a fantasy bookstore, a couple of hairdressers, drycleaner and a juice bar, it is the last place you’d expect to find decent Japanese ramen.
Yet find it you [...]
Naniwa Kuishinbo Yokocho
Tempozan Market Place
1-1-10 Kaigan-dori Minato-ku
552-0022 Osaka
Tel. +81665765501
http://www.hokkyokusei.jp/
The movie Tampopo is responsible for many of my Japanese food obsessions. Ramen of course, but also the moreish omurice, a homely dish of omelette filled with fried rice, which is eaten throughout Japan.
After a hard day of fish viewing at the Osaka Aquarium, and trippy IMAXing at the [...]
Urban Market, QV Melbourne
03 9650 0889
We all know that fish is good for us, low in fat and high in things like omega 3’s. In fact, it is recommended that we consume 2-3 serves per week of oily fish. However, it’s often hard to get a good quality, reasonably priced fish meal at lunchtime. Usually all [...]
G25 Postal Lane, GPO, 350 Bourke Street
Phone unknown at this stage
As most of our regular readers know, I am obsessed with authentic Japanese ramen. It was my favourite dish during my trip to Japan last year, highlights of which included the Shin Yokohama Raumen Museum and the mighty Jiro Ramen. By authentic, I mean a [...]
I love homemade pancakes, especially the version with creamy buttermilk and juicy blueberries. Nothing is better than whipping up a batch for breakfast on a lazy Sunday, and it’s a great way to impress the one you love! I got this receipe from GQ Magazine (American version, May 2008), which I modifed to [...]
128 Hopkins Street, Footscray
Phone 03 9689 6002
It’s not often that Mellie and I venture out to the Western ’burbs unless it is for a specific purpose, like when we travelled to (insert Franco Cozzo voiceover) Foot-des-Kray a couple of weeks ago for The Go Show, which was part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. When we [...]
1-6-18 Dotombori Chuo-ku
6211 8975
http://www.douraku.co.jp/kansai/shop/honten.html (Japanese only)
Osaka’s Dotombori area is full of giant neon billboards, many of which advertise a restaurant’s particular specialisation. There are giant blowfish (for fugu) and giant octopus (for takoyaki). And of course, there has to be a giant mechanical crab, glaringly proclaiming the bill of fare of the institutional Kani Doraku [...]
213 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Phone: 03 9663 9288
Standing in line at the packed-to-the-rafters Pacific BBQ Cafe, we felt like Elaine in the 1992 Seinfeld episode “The Suicide“. After fasting for 3 days for a medical test, she deliriously exclaimed at the hospital, “But here it was: mountains of duck, and not Fatty duck either, but juicy [...]
Umeda Sky Building
1-1 Chome, Oyodanaka, Kitaku, Osaka, Japan
http://www.skybldg.co.jp/ (Japanese only)
During our Japan trip in October 2007, we wanted to see both the old and the new, the traditional and the modern in Japanese architecture and culture. So, rather than check out just temples and traditional festivals, we also visited interesting skyscrapers and experienced contemporary festivals. [...]
Various locations
The subject of this review was located in Kyoto, Japan
http://www.yayoiken.com/ (Japanese only)
I wish to dispel the myth that Japan is a very expensive country. Don’t get me wrong – there are certainly things there that will cost you an arm and a leg. However, as with most countries, if you do as the locals [...]
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