Where/What We Ate > Where/What We Ate (31)
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Tofu Stew, Ahi Sashimi and Seaweed Salad - Our First Meal in Japan
There will be no way to document the name of the restaurants we eat in, since there is no English anywhere. This place was a little hole in the wall in Ginza. The tofu stew was unique to me, and the ahi so fresh and delicious.
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Our First "Japanese" Culinary Experience in Ginza
Now that look should sum up how good it all was . . .
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Good old classic of Soba noodles - Restaurant in Shiodome Media Tower
Jason employed the ordering technique of scanning other patrons meals, and pointing to the one that looked the best. I on the other hand walked the waitress outside the restaurant to point to the plastic food model that looked the tastiest to me. Hey, whatever works!
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Super-Sized Sushi Roll - Food hall in Seibu Mall (2nd largest in the world!(
Although it's incredibly difficult to tell this sushi roll was literally the size of Jason's forearm, stuffed with everything from prawns to ahi. We opted for a much smaller, more "pop" in your mouth friendly roll, but were mesmerized by the size of this thing
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Our frst Tokyo Sushi Experience - AMAZING!
Of course we had no idea how to order, so we just pointed to the fish that looked the freshest. The Thai Snapper nigiri with shiso rolled in and a little lemon juice squeezed on top was probably the best bite of sushi I've ever had!
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Terriyaki Chcken Burger at "Freshness Burger"
Lets just say I know why Japan is not known for their burgers. . .
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Nebiyaki, Soba, and Tempura - Local restaurant in Shiodome Tower
When the waitress saw us approaching, she ran to get visual aids of the food, so we could just point. The normal menu contained no pictures.
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Japanese "pizza" joint
These pizza's were definitely unique, and quite tasty. Although they normally put mayo on them, we opted to go without the mayo, and substitute with cheese.
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7 Eleven Sushi
A fast, easy and cheap way to grab a snack - actually I think we were eating this sushi for breakfast that day.
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Ginger Candy Stand in Maruyama Park
Ginger is always a good way to settle an upset tummy (which we've had many of this trip) or help alleviate nausea.
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Shabu-Shabu Restaurant off Shinjo Dori Street - Kyoto
We were very proud of ourselves that we tackled this non-English menu restaurant - it can be intimidating at times. Anyway, we were familiar with shabu-shabu, a favorite of ours from home, and this Japanese stuff was delicious. We splurged for one order of the "good meat" - this basically means a lot of fat marbling in the pieces, so when you cook it in the hot broth water it curls into the most gorgeous and tasty piece of flesh you could imagine. We stuffed ourselves sick in this joint!
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Green Tea Cake with Filling and Red Soy Bean Paste
There were so many unqique flavors in this - each layer was eaither the cake, or frosting, which made for a deliciously, different dessert.
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Kazahana Restaurant and Bar - Kyoto Tokyu Hotel
You never know what you're going to get with a hotel restaurant, and this place was fabulous. For one, the prices were reasonable, so didn't feel like you were being gouged for food. The food was also quite good. For our 2 meals of breakfast and dinner we ate here, we went with the "Western" food choices, which were all lovely. The setting is quite nice looking out onto a zen water garden with bamboo around it.
Ambience: 7/10 Food: 7/10
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All the sweets and pastries in this country are beautiful.
We just don't understand how the Japanese manage to stay so trim with all this amazing food around.
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Sushi-boat restaurant in Kyoto Train Station
Amazing selection of fishes, many we had never even seen or heard of before. Our 11 plates of various selections came to a mere $12.
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Gin-note Restaurant in Osaka
Recommended by Yuki, via Mr. Suda (some t.v. pesonality that she knows), this Shabu Shabu place was spot on. We delighted in 3 different types of Kobe beef, as well some delicious seafood and unique and interesting side dishes. We were thrilled to drink some very nice red wine here, since it had been a long time since we had drunken a nice red wine (doesn't seem to be so popular in Asian countries).
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New York Champagne and Cigar Bar - Osaka
We just couldn't pass this up after our delicious meal at Gin-note. The array of cuban cigars and lovely french champagnes hit the stop that night!
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Japanese Pizza House
We have a new-found respect for Japanese pizza after watching what skill goes into preparing one of the little pizzas. It's especially fun that they cook them right in the middle of the restaurant, so you see exactly what's going on. Our pizza filled with shrimp, meats, and calamari was yummy!
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Chibo Okonomiyaki in Namba
Little did we realize how popular this 5 floor pizza joint was, until we exited the restaurant and saw a line of over 20 people waiting to get in.
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Sky View Restaurant in Kobe
This 18th floor restaurant looked out onto the beautiful Kobe Harbour. We had wanted to try a traditional Japanese multi-course feast called a kaiseki, which we delighted in here. There was no doubt this was all Japanese with lots of interesting assortments of sushi, mochi balls, rice, custard, escargot, tempura, miso ending with a cherry blossom ice cream. This was an amazing meal!
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Upwards Italian Restaurant in the Kitano Area
We were craving something other then rice and fish this afternoon, and stumbled upon this neighborhood filled with international cuisines. We chose this adorable Italian joint, where not only did we have a nice meal, but also drank some Diet Pepsi, which is soooo difficult to find in this country - diet drinks are not popular at all, as there is certainly no need for diet with the petite Japanese people.
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Xin Chao Chinese Buffet - Kobe Harborland
We are usually not buffet people, but we were desparate this night. This was actaully quite tasty, serving an array of dim sum that was lovely. Located in the corner of the Harborland area, this place was actually quite a find.
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Passover Seder at the Tokyo JCC
Surprisingly the food was fantastic. They served a traditional/kosher meal that although couldn't compete with my mom's Pesach cooking, did the trick. More importantly than the food, the company was so lovely this evening.
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A brick of Tamago at the Tokyo Fish Market
This was so sweet and yummy, although we really couldn't eat too much of it - just too much egg! The bext part was it only cost like $2 for that whole thing.
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Tekka-Don that looked better then it tasted
Unfortunaltely they poured some sort of yam-like substance all over the rice, which made the texture very strange. Jason was not into it, but managed to eat the fish.
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Suji's NY Style Restaurant and Bar
Suji was a friend of Yuki's, so Yuki organized a whole little get together at the restaurant. The food was really good - made delicious, fresh salads there with really nice tomatoes. The ambience was killer, and was evident they put a lot of time and money into this restaurant which had just opened 2 months prior.
