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東京で食う飲む！Restaurant or Bar around Tokyo and Far East. There is a great diversity of food and culture in Japan. You will enjoy the huge range style of food from very local Japanese food to a lot of foreign foods. I hope you will find and feel the diversity of foods in Japan.

14 March 2016

Public opening of Inui Street in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo from 25th March to 31st March

Lim Ken 14 March 2016 16:00 , , , No comments :

The Imperial Household Agency of Japan had announced opening the Inui Street to the publich from 25th March to 31st March. Several media in Japan had reported. The public walking through the Inui Street had started from last spring. These event were opened to celebrate the 80 year old birth.

The Inui Street is running from Inui Gate to the building of Imperial Household Agency through in the Imperial Palace. Along Inui Street, there were 250 seasonal trees and plants planted. The season will be nice to enjoy the cherry blossoms along the street. Congrestion will occationally be expected. 

 
Access to the Inui street
The entrance will be in Sakashita gate.
  Tokyo station
  Otemachi station
  Hibiya station
  Nijubashi station
All station of JR line or Tokyo Metro and Tokyo subway service will be available to access to the Imperial plaza in front of the Palace.

Date and opening hour
 Date: 25th March to 31th March
 Opening hour: 10:00-15:00 close on 15:30
The information abou the public opening of Inui Street of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo is available following web site.http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/e-event/inui.html


10 March 2016

Taichiri, Taiyoshi hyakuban, Tobita shinchi (鯛よし 百番 大阪), Osaka, Japan

Lim Ken 10 March 2016 16:00 , , , No comments :
Tobita Shinchi area is a prostitution quater in Osaka city. This area was established in early 1900s and kept the Old Shunga world. The classical style buildings were stand along the streets. Each buildings has wide entrace combined with show window and called as Ryotei where the staff will serve some foods and alcohol beverage. There were a old lady keeping the shop and a young lady who will comfort customer, in each shop. The blight white light illuminated the two ladies in the shops. The young ladies had been made up as a doll and shined with red to pink light. The customers were only male and the service side were only female. The border amoung shop and street showed the complete gender difference in this area; inside are female and outside is male. The female customer had not been able to walk around this area. The Tai-yoshi was located in this area.
The building of Tai-yoshi hyakuban was classical Ryotei style. This restaurant was the real restaurant where serve some fish dishes without some comfort service. The interior was motive as Ryu-guu palace (palace in the ocean in "Urashima taro" popular nursery tale). The wooden building was decorated with some paints and wood work. The luxury but old fashioned atmosphere reminded us the completely separated world from the other place of Osaka. The atmosphere and building was very lovely.
The entrance of waiting space.
 
paint of nymphs of paradise.
 
The service was also the classical style as Ryotei. Customers were lead to the tatami rooms. All beverages were served in the glass bottles.
On this visiting, we had tai chiri (hot pot of sea bream). The soup was getting better taste, added the bones or meats of sea bream and vegetable.
 

Sea bream meats

vegetable and tofu

serving plate
 





8 March 2016

Breakfast as Parisien at Kagurazaka, Paul, Kagurazaka, Tokyo

Lim Ken 8 March 2016 16:00 , , , , , , No comments :
The Boulangeries Paul is a famous chain bread maker in the world. From 1990, this company had spread their shops in Japan. There were twenty two shops around Japan, run under real pasco company franchise ship.
 
The Kagurazaka area is known as Petit Paris in Tokyo. On the lower Kagurazaka main street, middle of the hill, you can find boulangerie and café facility of Paul. The interior was motive on the 19th century France. The wood table and chair set was placed as the café in Paris. In the kitchen, some craftsman were kneading bread dough or watching in the oven.



 
The set of tea or coffee and some bread was served in the morning. That morning, I had a cup of café crème and some patisseries from the show window.
  
The method was kept as original recipe from main branches in France. But butter or flower were bought by the local factories. The flavour of butter and dough was a little bit different from that in France.

6 March 2016

Wasabi or Horse radish? Tsuzuku, Ushigome Yanagicho (つず久 牛込柳町 新宿), Shinjuku, Tokyo

Lim Ken 6 March 2016 16:00 , , , , No comments :
Today, I would like to introduce the small Izakaya at Ushigome-yanagicho in Tokyo. This small restaurant has Wasabi rice as the signature dish. They use Ezo wasabi which is horse radish naturally grown in Hokkaido, for Wasabi rice.
The interior of this shop. The posters shown the nostalgic Showa era.

Wasabi, the most important Japanese ingredient

Wasabi is very important herb in Japanese food. If you had tried Sushi in the world, you had taste the flavour with hot taste which came through to nose. The flavour might be the taste and flavour of wasabi as sold in Japan or overseas Japanese food shop. But we must wonder the strong flavour is whether wasabi or horse radish including.
The farming and producing wasabi is very difficult. The plant of wasabi is very sensitive for environment they grow up. In Japan, we can taste wasabi at any Japanese restaurant. The staff or Itamae will shave the root of wasabi. The taste is flash-ly hot but the flavour is flesh and cold like breeze in spring.
You can get wasabi paste in supermarkets in Japan. The paste of wasabi in tube like tooth paste, will spoil tongue of your children. Almost all wasabi paste was made from horse radish as the reason the flavour was similar to wasabi. The flavour will be different from wasabi in flesh and cold.


steamed rice was served in silver pot made as the Traditional Japanese style.
rice with topped wasabi and soy sauce. The Nori(seaweed) was very nice flavour on this rice.
Ezo wasabi sent from Hokkaido to this restaurant.
As usual at Izakaya, we had started our dinner with Sashi-mori (selected Sashimi from today`s fishes)


Fried wild vegetable was very flesh green smell and we can feel the harshness from the vegetables. Warabi, Fuki-no-tou or Zenmai is popular ingredient from mountains.

4 March 2016

Competition about Food and drink in Japan from the Guardian

Lim Ken 4 March 2016 16:00 , , , No comments :

What is your tips about Food and drink in Japan?

The contribution to the Guardian witness from readers about food and drink in Japan had been open. The resident in the UK aged 18 and over can contribute to this competition. I am very interested in the results of this competition as a food blogger.

The Japan has huge diversity in the culture and food. The intelligent British citizen will be able to find the interesting foods or ingredients during their staying in Japan. I don’t have any idea about the restaurant which British will like to go in Tokyo or around Japan.
 

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/mar/02/food-and-drink-in-japan-send-us-a-tip-and-you-could-win-a-200-hotel-voucher
The photo of ramen might be taken in Kohmen(chain ramen restaurant 光麺 once bankruptcy on the end of 2015). The characteristic dish for topping, roast pork or braised pork etc. was served with the ramen. The picture has big impact on the image but this chain ramen stand has nothing interesting.

The Guardian is the liberal newspaper and media in the United Kingdom. This aggressive media show to us what the real liberalism is. But the columns on the Guardian written about Japanese culture often show wrong idea about the Japanese culture. I am looking forward to the list of this competition which the readers of the Guardian, who might be very intelligent persons, contribute.
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