restaurant reviews & travel stories
This weekend a friend of a friend was in town so time to do some more touristy stuff. First up was a visit to Tsukiji market for some quiet eating. Part of the queue outside one of the famous sushi restaurants. One guy in the …
Friends in town again, so more sightseeing! While walking to Ginza, stumbled across a fire extinguisher shop! Design! Ecology! And yes of course quality. Although if I am on fire, I don’t think I would care what colour the fire-extinguisher was… Off to the imperial …
Do you know where tempura comes from? Apparently it was adopted from the Portuguese but now is something very very different. My London friends and I ended up going to some hidden tempura shop. The entrance looked like the back of some grimey (well grimey for Tokyo …
Did you ever think there was something missing from your life? Disney land too kiddy for you? Universal studios a bit too dated? Alton towers just a bit too boring? Well, why not try a food theme park? Yes, a gyoza theme park. A hundred …
So far in the 3 months that I have spent in Tokyo things have been quite noisy in restaurants. Searches in quiet eating have not been that sucessful. Although things are not nearly as bad as in Hong Kong when you can’t even hear yourself …