Monthly Archives: February 2015

February 2015. Terrific cuisine. The food is so good you can actually ignore the cranium-shattering noise and indifferent service. Chef Angus An (whose Gastropod in the same location closed in favour of Maenam) knows how to put flavour and consistency together for … Continue reading →

February 2015. Restaurants in this town specialize. There are sushi restaurants, sukiyaki or hot pot restaurants, etc. I realized having lunch with some healthcare people that I haven’t really tried tempura. So I googled up trusty Michelin-on-line and had a … Continue reading →

February 2015 I chose this as my big night (lunch, actually) out, based on an article in Lonely Planet, in this incredible town that rivals Paris and Lyon for dining excitement. Stumbling around the internet I find, strangely, that this … Continue reading →

February, 2015. This location is in the vicinity of the giant train station which is, I think, one of the biggest in the world if not the biggest. I’m not sure where the name “piss alley” came from except for … Continue reading →

February, 2015 Tokyo’s famous cuisine comes at various levels, and predictably there are well-known diners and dives (don’t know about drive-ins…). A little alley exists under this station which is both a surface train and metro stopping-point. Just underneath the … Continue reading →

February 2015 Lonely Planet says the freshest sushi in Tokyo is located in this famous largest fish market in the world. I suspect they may be right although I’m never going to prove it. My first morning in town I dead reckoned south … Continue reading →

February 2015. I almost literally stumbled into this one on the infamous first night in town, just walking in random direction from the hotel with no idea what kind of neighbourhood I was in, whether there were any restaurants nearby, … Continue reading →