Funny anecdote, on our way to this place, I googled the address and was monitoring to see if driver was taking the correct route as they are very punctual in Japan and will cancel on you if five minutes late. At one point he starts going the total opposite direction. I start showing him my […]Read Post ›

Black Miso Ramen with chashu pork, amazing grated sesame with chopped garlic and bean sprout toppings. Totally stuffed our faces after the Robot show in Shinjuku. Not much more to say, the pictures speak for themselves. We hit up an even better ramen place in Kyoto, which I will post later on called Gogyo.

So we also love cold soba as one of our favorite spots to go in LA at least once a month in Gardena called Otafuku. This place was superb. The buckwheat noodles are packed with health benefits. We love the grainy, nutty smokey aftertaste of buckwheat noodles, they are almost peaty like whiskey. We also […]Read Post ›

So this katsu pork curry was only $6/plate. I would eat this everyday if I was a student here. I don’t understand why people have Subway and Mac Donald’s when you can have this for this same price. Long line out the door with only locals, you share tables with everyone. The rice was perfectly soft and […]Read Post ›

First up Kasugodai, baby red snapper sashimi, so chewy, but not sinewy, more delicate than adult tai (red snapper) Followed by baby firefly squid, fresh. We’ve had these at a restaurant in LA, and you can just tell they were flash frozen for transport, these have absolutely no fishy taste at all, straight up ocean, […]Read Post ›

We almost missed this dinner. I realized at 515p that dinner was at 5p not 7p while sorting through vintage transformers. If it wasn’t for Erika’s can do attitude prompting me to go for it, I was almost going to cancel. We ran into the street trying to catch a cab, rushing to one of the highlight […]Read Post ›

Again, no photos were allowed here either. Taking us back to pre-historic times, when there was no such thing as taking pictures of your food. Before we start, we learned that you should not book sushi for lunch and dinner on the same day, try to spread your sushi reservations days apart so that the […]Read Post ›

Started with a seared abalone topped with tempura crab guts/claw meat on top, with an egg yolky/bechamel type sauce, escorted by a boiled Sancho pepper garnish. As you will see later, they nuked us with a laurel of this stuff, almost like a hyperalgesic, provides this burning/numbing pain in your mouth like you ate Vicks […]Read Post ›

So we did not have a formal shabu shabu meal in Japan, but when I was researching shabu shabu with Matsuzaka beef, we had an option to have this same beef cooked tepanyaki style, which the concierge highly recommended and internet research showed this to be one of the few places in Tokyo with this kind […]Read Post ›

Yakitori cooked all by hand where the chef controls the temperature of the coals with a fan that he bats non stop throughout entire dinner. First up, Chicken breast sashimi, only gently seared, raw on the inside. Don’t worry, salmonella only occurs in packaged US chickens that live in a pool of their own feces with […]Read Post ›