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28 July 2018
Ryuhou, Kagurazaka (龍朋, 神楽坂), Tokyo, Japan
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The casual and
reasonable Chinese restaurant in Kagurazaka serving Fried rice (炒飯 チャーハン)
It was the
very hot evening after typhoon has gone through the island of Japan. The
hotness in the ground kept the air hot and wet. I have gotten off the metro at
Kagurazaka Station to find the restaurant to have supper. After getting to the
ground floor, I reminded the small Chinese restaurant near the station, Ryuhou.
I stood behind the Yarai exit and turned left and left again on the first
corner at the bookshop. I found the yellow eaves sign with “Lamen 龍朋.” This
Japanese style Chinese restaurant, like Ramen shop, was famous as the restaurant
serving one of the most delicious Fried rice in Tokyo.
rewrite 28th June,
first 2nd, June, 2015
There are a
lot of young age, their twenties to thirties year old, customers in the
restaurant. The interior of the restaurant has atmosphere of 1960s common coffee
house in Japan. The Wall paper is polyvinyl and blotched as a lot of brown spots
of cooking oil. The furniture sets are made of wood. The interior looks very cheap
but makes us some nostalgic feeling. A lot of menu plates were lined and hung
on the wall beyond our head as the common Chinese food restaurant in Japan.
I ordered a set of Fried rice from the list.
I ordered a set of Fried rice from the list.
The set of
Fried rice was served with plain soup and fried rice. The fried rice was very simple
that they cooked with dice size roost pork, egg and spring onion. The roost
pork had very nice flavour and great texture of meat and made a lovely match
with sliced spring onion.
The soup
was also nice. It was the fish soup stock taken with dried sardine, dried
bonito and other seafood. The white brown soup stock could be served with other
noodle, like Ramen at this restaurant.
They have
very simple menu list but serve with their heart. The atmosphere is very lovely
as the haimish and daily-use common Chinese restaurant. All dishes were served
with less than one thousand yen (about eight US dollar).
rewrite 28th June,
first 2nd, June, 2015
27 July 2018
Hamo course in Kiyokawa, Nagasaki (鱧づくし 清花和 長崎), Japan
Hamo, the signature fish in Summer, in texture, taste and flavour
The fish, Hamo is come from Ariake sea area. During the Gion festival season(from first to end of June) in Kyoto, the people in Kyoto will feel the coming summer with Hamo sent from Kyusyu or Setouchi area. On this staying in Nagasaki, I have enjoyed Hamo in Kiyokawa where is my favourite Japanese food restaurant in Nagasaki. At the fisherman's port of Nagasaki, the amount of landing Hamo is ranked at fifth in Japan. |
| Hamo, (http://nagasaki-sakana.com/seasonal_fish/2731/) |
In English, Hamo is pike conger, academically named Muraenesox
cinereus. Hamo has long body like eel. From Edo era, the long body fish were
valued as the invigorating ingredient due to the shape. And during the poor transportation to Kyoto, Hamo survived to send to Kyoto from Osaka port because of the strength and powerful characters. The Hamo has thick body
and a lot of bone in the meat. In Japan, this fish were cooked as the fish
paste or in the Japanese restaurants. This Fish is
Hone-kiri (cutting the bones) is one of the highest technique of Japanese chefs, Itamae
In the Japanese food
restaurants, the pike conger were cooked after the bone cutting. The Itamae
will use the special kitchen knife for the purpose of carving the pike conger,
called Hone-kiri-bouchou (meaning knife for cutting the bones). He will carving
the pike conger with thin slice as 1-1.5mm, with perpendicular to the body,
using the heavy weight and sharpness of the knife to crave the thin slice. The sound
of cutting the bone is rhythmical and solid, as giving us the incessant
clicking.
After the bone cutting, Itamae will boil, steam or cook for
your courses. When he boiled, the shape of fish meat will get the lovely shape
as flower blooms.
Hamo, the great actor as the ingredient in Japanese food
Hamo dishes have various cook style, boiled, braised, roast or raw. We will feel the summer and survive the heatwave with the strength of this fish.
Sashimi and boiled Hamo with pram sauce (with red brown sauce)
Hamo Yanagawa (braised with egg)
Kabayaki sushi ( Teriyaki-like roasted Hamo)
Elder: 25th August 2014
Japanese restaurant, Kiyokawa
Nagasaki
17 November 2017
Nice Hotel for business and leisure in central Tokyo, Courtyard by Marriott, Tokyo Station
The Location is the Best.
Courtyard by Marriott, Tokyo Station is located near to Tokyo Station, opposite side of Marunouchi area, near to Nihonbashi area. These areas are the core part of the financial or economy of Tokyo. A lot of foreign or global companies have placed their office around this area.Tokyo Station is also the hub of transportation in Metropolitan Tokyo and Japan. Bullet train will arrive and leave every two minute, commuter train will also serve you short comfort journey around Tokyo, as Yokohama or Kamakura. Several underground lines served by Tokyo metro are available at Otemachi station hub.
The room is also simple.
The room of Courtyard have very simple furniture and bathroom. I love the writing desks which have large space for note taking or writing articles. The dimension of single bed rooms is also larger than that of other hotels in the same range of price. The rooms have bath tub and toilet with wash-let.
From the window, you will have view of small path among old Showa style building. Though the entrance faced to the main street, Chuo dori, you will escape from the crowded Tokyo in your room.
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| Flat TV is available with overseas programs. |
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| bath room |
The typical Courtyard style service as US
Courtyard by Marriott served as their style as US. They opened their hotels in the nice location near to train station or motorway junctions. At the reception desk, they will provide some foods or drinks like convenient stores. Frequent users of Marriott reward will receive some privilege as free alcohol drinks at reception or happy hour benefit at ground floor restaurants.
The staff is questionable on their skills at Hotel. They have few information about the currency exchange, transportation around Tokyo metropolitan or some restaurant spot. But you will get those on your mobile instead of the staff.
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| The view from window. |
Access and location
Courtyard Marriott Tokyo Station is located near to JR Tokyo station and next to the underground Kyobashi station on Ginza line (orange line). Ginza and Nihonbashi shopping area and Marunochi and Yaesu area is accessible on foot for 5 minutes. Around Tokyo station, there are Otemachi station which is the hub of Tokyo metro (underground) lines, bus terminal for north or east bound high way buses and bullet train station and JR commuter lines station.
From Narita Airport, buses to Tokyo station will bring you directly to this area. From Haneda Airport, Tokyo monorail and Yamanote line, which is one of the most classical transportation combination to or from Haneda, takes around 30 minutes and Limousine bus will also be convenient.
15 November 2017
MOXY Tokyo Kinshityou, public space
The new style hotel, room is simple and public area is exciting, came to Japan.
The hotel of Moxy brand has simple studio type bed rooms for visitor and some exciting items around public space. The young generation, twenties to thirties, like communication, parties and night life, using photo SNS as Instagram or Twitter was the targets of this hotel. The pink purple is iconic colour of this hotel chain in Marriott hotel.
The article about room was here
At the entrance, some art designed balloons will welcome you. And there are several bicycles with helmets for customers.
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| strange art? at entrance |
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| you can borrow sport bicycles |
Reception facility was placed on Bar counter
The reception desk was combined with Bar counter and shop register. The lobby area has huge space for the visitors and customers and was placed various type of chairs and sofa couch with table around the bar. On some table, you will find small toys or games for communication with your friends or other customers.
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| relax area in front of the bar counter |
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| Bar counter. Enjoy some drinks or food at this area. The bartender will serve some coffee or tea. |
Library and lounge space
The library and lounge space show the concept of this moxy brands. Modern, millennium, pop cultural things were placed and exhibited around the space.
On your travelling Japan, you will find new friends or some SNS followers at this atmosphere, beyond your mobile or computers.
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| The wall of Lounge and library. Various typography show a sentence. |
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| In front of the fireplace, the customer can enjoy some game or chatting with relaxed atmosphere. |
How to get
Kinshicho station is very convenient for your business or leisure in Tokyo metropolitan area. There were two JR lines (Japan railways company) and one underground service (Hanzomon, Tokyo Metro) and several bus route, give you the nice access around Tokyo.
From NARITA airport, Sobu line will directly send you to the Kinshicho JR station. And From HANEDA airport, Limousine bus will take you to the Kinshicho station area. You also get Tokyo station on JR Sobu line service and Omotesando with Tokyo metro Hanzomon line (purple line).
The Tokyo sky tree area or Asakusa area are very near from here, just taking five minutes from these lines.
2 November 2017
Chewy Grilled beef tongue, Sendai Gyutan, Ara, Yaesu, Tokyo station, (仙台牛タン 荒 八重洲), Tokyo, Japan
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Difficult for tourist to find your dinner, on Chaotic and typical Japanese street
This restaurant is located along the busy and chaotic, long street
in the Yaesu side of Tokyo main station. Hotel Ryumeikan was located near this
street. This area was very convenient for both business persons and tourists. For Business persons, Marunochi area is opposite side on Tokyo station. For tourists, you can get great access to Tokyo main station where you can go somewhere in Japan or Tokyo with your Japan rail pass.
I found the foreign tourists were walking along the street but they already lost
themselves due to jetlag and parallel universe of Baymax. The foreigner seemed
to have never been able to identify what restaurant was or what food was going
to be served there. They were just walking around this area with missed
identity. There were also Japanese business men and the staff from the bars or
restaurants. The business persons had already been drunk a little bit and
looked for the next bars or pubs (Izakaya). The staffs from the pubs (Izakaya)
or Karaoke centre were touting the customers. The nervous foreigner, good mood
business persons, noisy staff from Izakaya and neon-lit of the izakaya or
Karaoke centre shows chaotic scene of Tokyo. The similar situation will be
shown in several busy area as Shinjuku, Ikebukuro or Shibuya.
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| The street in Yaesu, covered with Cherry broom on April |
Fast, good price and hot meal for dinner, with Japanese style
The Ara, gyutan restaurant, is very reasonable and useful
for the tourists. The atmosphere is like as the fast food restaurant around business area but the interior is also old style of set-menu restaurants (called as Teishoku-ya 定食屋). They will serve the Sendai style gyutan in this restaurant. Though I
had no idea about if there is English menu in this restaurant, they may have some English menu card. The area around Tokyo station is one of the most popular spot for the foreign tourists.
Overview of Gyutan set
Traditionally, the gyutan set in Sendai was served the main plate for the several styles of beef tongue (Gyutan), pickled vegetable, ox tail soup and bowl of barley and rice. Almost all restaurants specialized into the gyutan may have this type of sets on their menu.
Roasted Gyutan
The beef tongue was roasted or grilled. The meat was cut with thick. A piece
of meat was including rich beef juice and butter like flavour. The texture, the
most important parts of this dish, is nicely chewy and lovely.
Ox tail soup
barlay and rice
This set was served as the traditional Teishoku (定食 including rice, soup, main dish, and pickles) style.
The restaurants which served the gyutan (beef tongue) were
located anywhere around Tokyo. The thickness of sliced beef tongue is including
chewy texture and red meat juice. Sendai has more legend and famous restaurants
around in the city centre. If you have the plan to visit to Sendai with Tohoku
Shinkansen (high speed railway, Tohoku line), it will take just for two hour and half, please enjoy the gyutan at
Sendai.
former 6th Feb 2016
Re-write on 2017 2nd Nov.
former 6th Feb 2016
Re-write on 2017 2nd Nov.
9 October 2016
Seolleongtang, Korean breakfast in Korean town of Akasaka, Ichiryu, Akasaka, Tokyo
Ichiryu, Korean restaurant in Akasaka
Akasaka has a small Korean town street. There are a lot of Korean restaurants produced by Korean immigrants. In Korean peninsula, a lot of restaurants were commonly serving the dishes using the same soup stock type as degikupab using pig soup stock or Seolleongtang with beef soup stock. Ichiryu, a restaurant which Kim Hajime has established, has the sorlontan as the signature dish.
An old lady and the restaurant
It was a heavy rain morning on holiday. The restaurant in the early morning, this restaurant is open 24/7, showed Korean style loose atmosphere. Small television speak unnecessary programs as common morning programs in Japan, containing local news as dogs of celebrity or recommended shops by movie star. Ajuma, old lady Korean manager of this restaurant, watched the programs.
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| Kimchi and side dishes. The texture of Kimchi is lovely. |
Kimchi and Ebichang
The staffs took my order. I had Seolleongtang on that morning. As the common Korean restaurant, a lot of small dishes were served at first. Kimchi was very nice quality. The Umami and chili taste of Kochujan were nicely pickled. According to the Ebichang theory, the taste of Kimchi is very important part of Korean food restaurant, to show the heart of manager what the Korean food is (Ebichang is a koryophile of my friends. He had huge knowledge of cultural anthropology of Korean peninsula).
Seolleongtang and Ichiryu
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| Seolleongtang |
The Seolleongtang of Ichiryu has very nice taste of soup stock. The soup was sophisticated Umami taste of classical Korean food. The customers were able to decided the amount of salt to add to the soup. The salt degree is very important part of this soup. The marriage of mild beef soup stock taste and small amount of salt will show smooth texture of the soup.
The usual Korean food manner when eating a set menu is mixture of all ingredients served in the bowl. The dirty presentation made me disappointed. And I have made it a rule that rice and several ingredients as the dry fishes or pickled fishes to add Umami tastes in the dish.
17 June 2016
The dinner course, Kayanoya (茅乃舎 レストラン), Fukuoka
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Kyushu
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Dashi is the basis and necessity of Japanese foods.
Japanese foods contain the Umami taste
in itself. This Dashi taste which has rich of Umami was an identity in Japanese
foods. When we talk about Japanese foods, we must remind the taste or flavour
of the dishes. The Dashi taste is the most important part in Japanese foods as
the butter in the French.
The restaurant, an icon of Kayanoya is dining facility,
is located in the countryside of Fukuoka. The exterior and interior was
traditional farmer’s house. This house picture was printed on their products.
Kaya-buki roof (thatched roof) is the bland icon of Kayanoya.
Kanoya is a bland company producing a high-end food
from Fukuoka, Western island Kyushu. Kanoya basically was run as a Dashi
producer as several variation of blended Dashi. They had developed their
business as the “taste and flavour company” which produce various condiments or
foods. The origin of this company was a bag of Dashi. This pack was used like
as the tea bag, dipped in hot water and use a thick essence for the daily
foods.
The dinner courses were cooked with the local
ingredients and products from Kayanoya; the dressing sauce of salad, Dashi soup
for the pots, sauce for Sashimi (not only say sauce). The course was formed six
dishes as the traditional Japanese style full course. All dishes were designed
as the modern Japanese style.
The course was formed, Starter, Vegetable soup (soup
from the lands), Mukouduke (Sashimi), seasonal dish from the kitchen, small
dish of grandmother from Nagano (traditional style foods), Main course (choice
from the lists) and dessert. The course was started with the sweet light liquor.
Restaurant Kayanoya(茅乃舎)
Restaurant Kayanoya(茅乃舎)
This restaurant has the transportation service from
the city centre of Fukuoka as Tenjin. Please contact to the restaurant
reservation.
English page is available.
http://www.kayanoya.com/en/
14 June 2016
Ono Catholic Church, Shimo-ono, Nagasaki, Japan [The pilgrimage tour around Nagasaki]
The simple and comfortable place for praying
Passing through Kurosaki Catholic church and Shitsu Catholic church to Saikai city,
there is a small but nice church where does not have resident bishop, Ono
Catholic Church. This Church is located on the small hill covered with a lot of
plants. From Ono Catholic Church, you will have beautiful view of Sumo Nada (Shape
like Sumo wresting) and East China sea.
The church is a house of one storey and stone arranged wall and Kawara bricked roof. The room is small
as 6.1m width and 11.8m depth. The window had arch and was smaller than that in
Japan. The design of the Ono church was Japanese-French. This church was
designed and established by Bishop de Rotz who was mainly live in Shitsu area,
on 1893. On the age, the import bricks from France were very expensive. He had
chosen the stone which were produced in this area. The stone was black and
green basalt stone. The stones were arranged with mortal.
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| The green stones wall showed very simple and country side style of the church |
The reservation by phone call or website is necessary. Please contact to the information
centre by phone.
095-823-7650
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