Posted in Food Review - Japan, Travel Food, tagged chanko-nabe, Gion, izakaya, japan, Kyoto, sumo on 3 September 2009 | 4 Comments »
And so it was the day after New Year’s Day of 2009, and we, newly married on the second leg of our honeymoon, found ourselves wandering along Shijo-dori in the famous Gion district of Kyoto.
(Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto)
A little fact about Japan: the Japanese visit temples on around New Year’s Eve and shrines on after [...]
Posted in Food Review - Japan, Restaurant, tagged beef rice bowl, gyudon, japan, tokyo, ueno on 28 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(Gyu No Chikara, Ueno, Tokyo)
We stumbled upon this place while walking around Ueno area in Tokyo. What drew us there was a TV that sat in front of the restaurant playing a program (in Japanese, of course) about how a good gyudon is made. It took us quite a while to realise that the program [...]
Posted in Food Review - Japan, Restaurant, tagged harajuku, omelet, omuraisu, omurice, Rice, takoyaki, tokyo on 29 June 2009 | 1 Comment »
I love the Japanese omelet rice! Of course when we went past a little cafe in Harajuku that specialised in omuraisu, we could not not go in. From my hazy recollection, we were absolutely starving on the day so excuse me for quick, useless photos. I’m pretty sure my hands shook from hunger.
Naturally this was [...]
Posted in Food Review - Japan, tagged ramen, sensoji, sweet potato on 16 June 2009 | 2 Comments »
Ramen was one of the main things I looked forward to eating in Japan (but then again I guess I looked forward to everything. Japan is a the food heaven.
(Senso-ji, Asakusa Kannon Temple, Tokyo)
So this was day 2 out of 14 in our beloved Nihon. We decided to wander over to one of the [...]
Posted in Food Review - Japan on 3 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We arrived Narita early in the morning very tired after a restless flight. Here we were, finally, in Japan! I totally harboured secret Japan-lust for a very long time. Okay, so it wasn’t really a secret.
We were starving and after we booked ourselved a tiny (seriously tiny, tiny as in 1.5m x 2.5m) room in [...]
