Nagoya’s German Market
Nov 21, 2017 By Bert Wishart
With its strawberries on cakes, love hotels and KFC, Japan gives Christmas a good try, but it doesn't quite come out right. What we need at this time of year is some real, good old fashioned tradition, and nothing quite screams 'IIIIIIIIIT'S CHRRIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAAAAAS' like handmade wooden toys, excited children and...[ Click to read more ]
What to Eat in Kobe Besides the Beef
Oct 28, 2017 By Justin Hanus
Tourists flock from around the globe to eat Kobe’s famous beef. But you’re a local now, and you’ve been there, and done that. Now it’s time to give some local delicacies a try. Here are the top five tasty treats the locals enjoy in Kobe. 1. Gyoza Gyoza are delicious...[ Click to read more ]
Fratelli Paradiso: Great Italian Food in Omotesando Hills
Oct 27, 2017 By Admin
In 2001 'Fratelli Paradiso opened the doors in Potts Point, Sydney, Australia, where it is a staple of the Sydney food scene due to its consistently good Italian food and inimitable hospitality. The Omotesando shop itself is unpretentious and relaxed. You will find a handwritten menu on the black chalkboard and artists,...[ Click to read more ]
Looking for a Good Time in Hiroshima?
Sep 13, 2017 By Jade Brischke
If you want to have a good time having a drink and some quick and easy food to eat whilst chilling out in relaxed surroundings, head to Good Time. According to Google maps it’s labelled as a, ‘hotdog restaurant,’ and one man from Chicago, which apparently is the ‘home of...[ Click to read more ]
Import Stores in Hiroshima: The Solution to Your Cravings
By Jade Brischke
[caption id="attachment_33409" align="aligncenter" width="640"] If only the selection was this good!![/caption] There are three kinds of people who come to Japan: the first who continues to eat their Western diet that they’re used to, the second who decides to abandon all Western foods and go totally Japanese and the third...[ Click to read more ]
The Yatai Festival at Osaka Castle
Aug 28, 2017 By
Picture in your mind the usual selection of Japanese yatai and festival foods, like karaage, tama sen, JUMBO hot dogs, "kakigori" shaved ice. Now throw all that out, because this is not that. The Yatai Festival at Osaka Castle is a very large outdoor festival that offers a wide variety of gourmet...[ Click to read more ]
Tokyo’s Alternative, and More Interesting, Beer Gardens
Aug 24, 2017 By Bert Wishart
[caption id="attachment_33163" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Summer Nights at Yoyogi Village Beer Terrace[/caption] It could be argued (by me at least) that one of the greatest things on Earth is sitting outside on a warm day with an ice cold beer. Thankfully the city of Tokyo is blessed with a plethora of beer...[ Click to read more ]
Kit Kat Kraziness – What Is Going On?
By Justin Hanus
Sometimes a company can find consumer gold in that suggestion box put out in the lunch room for employees to offer an opinion. Such was the case with the Kit Kat bar, the best selling chocolate treat in Japan. The first Kit Kat chocolate candy was manufactured in England in...[ Click to read more ]
The Singular Summer Pleasures of Kawadoko Dining
Jul 24, 2017 By Justin Hanus
There has always been something seductive about waterfalls. There is the metronomic sound of the water tumbling into basin pools and the mesmerizing sluices of water cascading down rock cliffs. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright built one of his most famous houses atop a waterfall in the woods of Pennsylvania. So...[ Click to read more ]
No One Does Beer Gardens Like Japan
By Justin Hanus
It's summer. It's hot. And for many that means only one thing - beer gardens. The summertime treat, however, does not have its origins in cold brews quenching parched summer thirsts. Five hundred years ago in Bavaria the brewing of beer was legal only between the feast of St. Michael...[ Click to read more ]
