Tag: restaurant: Japan

  • Asian Cafe Bowl Bowl, Narita International Airport Terminal 2, Japan

    Richard has had various Japanese foods during the trip including tonkatsu, curry (cheated by having the two-in-one tonkatsu curry rice), ramen, karaage and yakiniku. The next on the list is sushi, and we wouldn’t accept any alternative, even if it means having airport sushi! There weren’t a lot of restaurants available after customs at Terminal…

  • Hotel Oak Forest, Hakuba, Nagano, Japan: Meals

    In true foodie spirit, I took a picture of almost every course I ate at the hotel we stayed at for the ski trip, and split the food section into this entry of its own! As mentioned in the post for Hotel Oak Forest (ホテル オークフォレスト) itself, the meals included in our ski package were…

  • Marukame, Hakuba, Nagano, Japan

    Richard and I finally joined the rest of the guys out for dinner in town tonight, the last night of our ski trip. It’s yakiniku time! The hotel was kind enough to take the six of us to our restaurant of choice tonight: Marukame (まるかめ) — a sumibi yakiniku place about a 5-minute drive away…

  • All the Junk from Famima Japan

    It was already very late by the time we made it back to Tokyo by bus and checked in at the hotel. Not a single restaurant or grocer in the area was still open, so in desperation, we went into the corner convenience store Famima (short for FamilyMart) and swept every hot food they had…

  • Kakoiya, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

    We had a table at Kakoiya Shinjuku (かこいや 新宿店) for our ice-breaking ski group dinner of about 14-15 of us. I didn’t know pretty much all of them until I met them for the first time at the station, but most of them already knew one another from previous ski trips. After a lot of…

  • Tsukiji Tama Sushi, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

    Tsukiji Tama Sushi (築地玉寿司) is located on the 13th floor of the Shinjuku Takashimiya (新宿高島屋) department store building. We weren’t sure what to have for lunch at first, but I immediately voted for the restaurant when I saw the all-you-can-eat (食べ放題) menu on the front door. They charge different prices for male and female customers:…

  • Ippudo, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

    We regrouped for dinner at Ginza after we got our ski gear from Kanda. There was an Ippudo in the district, and since the brother’s friends were fans of the Hong Kong branches, they decided to try the restaurant for comparison. Eating ramen in Japan? I think so, yes! Ippudo Ginza (一風堂 銀座店) is located…