Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 45847 Location: Los Skandolous, California Country:
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:04 am Post subject:
Sengo wrote:
That sashimi looks absolutely amazing!! You can see how fresh it is even in the pic!!
You are so right about the freshness...you can tell merely by looking at the pic. This particular dish was part of a kaiseki meal given at the ryokan I stayed at in Hakone.
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Did you do a lot of online research to find these amazing restaurants to go to?
The pig in me does prompt me to do some research with regard to restaurants before I leave on my trips to Japan...but I obviously don't research it down to every meal I plan to have.
The chicken place Kakomiya I just looked up an hour before I decided to go there on the this website, www.bento.com. It's all in English. It's an amazing resource for restaurants in major Japanese cities. I recommend you bookmark it for future reference.
I'm currently staying in the Honmachi area of Osaka so I just looked up restaurants in Honmachi on bento.com and Kakomiya was one of the ones listed.
Even though the Japanese address system is incredibly confusing and difficult to fathom for foreigners like myself, with technology these days, it has become fairly easy to get from place to place. I just input the address on Google Maps on my cellphone and it has two two markers...one for your current location and one for your destination....with the built in GPS antenna on the phone it tracks your current location in real time. You just follow the directions until you arrive. It's really a lifesaver.
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:54 am Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
Isn't every restaurant in Japan amazing?
EDIT: Every Japanese restaurant.
No..... we went to a ramen shop that our tour guide said he liked and it was not very good. It was too salty and the broth's flavor was mediocre. There were a lot of people in there, though.
Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 450 Location: United States Country:
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:59 am Post subject:
Tu_triky wrote:
The pig in me does prompt me to do some research with regard to restaurants before I leave on my trips to Japan...but I obviously don't research it down to every meal I plan to have.
The chicken place Kakomiya I just looked up an hour before I decided to go there on the this website, www.bento.com. It's all in English. It's an amazing resource for restaurants in major Japanese cities. I recommend you bookmark it for future reference.
I'm currently staying in the Honmachi area of Osaka so I just looked up restaurants in Honmachi on bento.com and Kakomiya was one of the ones listed.
Even though the Japanese address system is incredibly confusing and difficult to fathom for foreigners like myself, with technology these days, it has become fairly easy to get from place to place. I just input the address on Google Maps on my cellphone and it has two two markers...one for your current location and one for your destination....with the built in GPS antenna on the phone it tracks your current location in real time. You just follow the directions until you arrive. It's really a lifesaver.
Thanks for the link which I saved!! Next time I go, I'm going to check this site out.
I would definitely want to try that chicken restaurant. I'm game to try the chicken sashimi and all of the other dishes!!
No..... we went to a ramen shop that our tour guide said he liked and it was not very good. It was too salty and the broth's flavor was mediocre. There were a lot of people in there, though.
Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 45847 Location: Los Skandolous, California Country:
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 11:41 pm Post subject:
Sengo wrote:
Thanks for the link which I saved!! Next time I go, I'm going to check this site out.
Cool. You're welcome.
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I would definitely want to try that chicken restaurant. I'm game to try the chicken sashimi and all of the other dishes!!
I figured you would be adventurous enough to try it. There are a few people here who I thought would appreciate the recommendation so I thought I would share my experience. Japan is a foodie paradise for sure.
Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 45847 Location: Los Skandolous, California Country:
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 4:04 am Post subject:
Two new restaurants in the South Bay. One ramen shop and a soba shop.
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1) Gardena: Torihei has been a people's izakaya joint since opening in March 2009, and every Friday night the clipboard wait list is filled full of hopeful izakaya-ers. Everyone was hoping Torihei would grow out of South Bay a la Musha, but the expansion never materialized. Luckily, Torihei decided to invest its extracurricular talents into ramen via Jidaiya ((Žž‘ã‰Æ)). Much like Torihei, no PR tactics were deployed by Jidaiya, but within the first week, the dining room was already packed at lunch. Co-owner Taigo Sato tells Eater the tonkotsu soup is "boiled for over 10 hours" using soft water with 95% impurities removed. The "basic" tonkotsu "Yokohama" ramen (with a slice of chasiu, bamboo, wood ear, nori) costs $6.95 and extra toppings range from $1 (hanjuku tamago) to $2 (extra serving of cha siu). Cash only.
18537 S. Western Ave., Gardena
2) Gardena: Soba Sojibo, owned by Kineya Company Japan, is now serving. There are 30 Sojibo's in Tokyo alone, but the Gardena location is the first bona-fide branch of Sojibo in the US. Sojibo is known for making affordable cold zaru soba that's extremely popular during summer, and the company touts the high polyphenols found in soba noodles, but is loved for offering table-side grate-it-yourself fresh wasabi in Japan. No further news of US expansion at this time.
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