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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.

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24 October 2015

Cathay Pacific San francisco airport lounge, San Francisco, CA, USA

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Cathay Pacific business class lounge, San Francisco, California, USA


Cathay Pacific placed a lot of lounge all over the world where they have the flights. The North America is the major long haul route in the CX.

The interior was the prior typical design of the Cathay Pacific lounge. The wall was white, the marble long counters and noodle bar.

On my visiting, there were a lot of passengers to waiting for the CX flight. They had some bowls of noodle from the noodle bar as the other Cathay pacific lounge. The flight was mid-night and the passengers looked very tired and spent their each time as they liked.

I had a bowl of wan tan mien on the white marble counter located in the centre of the lounge. The high counter was similar to one in the Narita lounge. The noodle has nice texture but a little bit boiled. I was satisfied on the pre-flight noodle and the last meal in the United States.

 

25 July 2015

One flew south, Atlanta airport, Georgia, United states of America

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The airport is generally desert of the delicious foods. We will find very typical fast food chain shops or very small food shop in the airports. The Gordon Ramsay in Heathrow terminal 5 or Kushikatsu on the Edo koji (江戸小路) in Tokyo Haneda is several exceptional example. On my visiting Atlanta, I found the other example.

The Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International airport is one of the largest airport in the world. Eight million passenger flied from or to this airport, 75 thousand operations of airliner used this airport.

This restaurant and bar, One flew south, was located in the terminal E where has the international flight to all over the world. In One flew south, you can taste what food is modern in Southern United States.
All food on the menu showed some Japanese essence on the letters. I was very surprised at each dishes. The tastes of all dishes are very modern American. According to the restaurant website, they said "‘Southernational’- Cuisine inspired by world travels; prepared largely with high quality, fresh, local ingredients." But the basis of the cuisine is Japanese sushi. I was very happy to enjoy some wine from the States and ingredient from the States. On this journey, I have just started to find what is the real American (like the campaign of the GREAT britain 2015).

The interior of the bar counter
At the bar counter, the staff will serve various craft beers, American wines or cocktails.

 
This time, I chose scallops.

The fried rice with Kentackyaki source braised chicken.

23 July 2015

Mare oyster bar, North end, Boston, USA

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Lovely seafood restaurant in little Italy of Boston
 
The little Italy of Boston was very beautiful town on my visiting USA on 2015 spring. There are a lot of lovely restaurant, bar or boutique in the town. There are a lot of street around the hill which has very nice view of Boston harbour. The people who live in this small area are American but very passive and friendly people like Italian.
 
This restaurant was the recommendation of the concierge at my hotel. Around this area, I found a lot of nice bars, liquor shops or Italian food restaurant. It was very cold evening.
 
At first, I found the kitchen area of this restaurant faced on the street. There were less than eight staff who were busily working around.


My first course was oysters from the several points around the East coast of the USA. I was able to choose from the small piece of paper which the details of the oyster species served on my visit were written down. From the list, I had the small meat type of oysters. Each oyster was very nice and I have been able to feel the terroir where the oysters grew up.

The second course was the Kampachi tartar with Yuzu source. Kampachi(勘八) is called as greater amberjack in English. This fish is the very expensive fish and Syusse Uo (出世魚 しゅっせうお Syusse means promotion or success in life, Uo is fish) in Japan. In UK There are several Syusse Uo(s) which means the fish called by different names as they growing larger, as Buri(鰤 ), Suzuki(鱸). Syusse Uo is known as a bringer of good luck in Japan from the meanings: success or promotion. Yuzu ponzu and chili taste was similar to the Yuzu Kosho. The taste of the Yuzu Kosho was salty and hot but it was very nice for Japanese. 
The Last course was the "zuppa di pesce" (soup of seafood). It was excellent taste (I really love this type of soup). The Umami from a lot of seafood as shrimp, mussels, fish(may be parrot fish), clams etc. made nice harmony in one soup. The strong taste of seafood satisfied with my stomach. On one dish, there were enough seafood nicely tasted and beautifully displayed on the dish.
reservation is required
Tel: 617-723-6273
135 Richmond Street, Boston north end
http://www.mareoysterbar.com/

31 May 2015

Park 75, Four seasons hotel Atlanta, Atlanta, geogia, USA

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Park 75 is the main dinning of  Four seasons hotel Atlanta, one of the most luxury hotels in Atlanta. The beef steak is my favourite one in Atlanta.

As the first course, I usually have some seasonal dishes. On this visiting, I ordered the tuna with yuzu-bonzu. The tuna was nicely matured and nice flavour with yuzu. But the taste was a little bit salty. For Japanese, I can feel some nostargic on this dish.

The beef steak was served by ounce. I have six ounce with midium rare. The texture and taste was very lovely. The taste was juicy with red meat and nice crispy surface. The strong American meet taste was very nice.
I visited at Atlanta on spring. The side dish was grilled asparagus.

the entrance of the Four seasons hotel

11 April 2015

The very American breakfast in the sky, First class, US/AA2061

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The American airlines and US airways will merge in two years. I flew with the very American flight in American domestic. I had very difference experience from the Japan Airlines one.

I started the journey to Houston on the early morning in the chilled March. The temperature was 25 degree Fahrenheit. Some airplanes were freezed the body.

After taking off, a cabin attendant served the breakfast. The menu was as following.

Entre: The omelet with broccoli and soted potato and chili sausage

Fresh fruit

The bread choice: biscotti or whole nuts bread
 

I had the choice from omelet or crape. The style of service was very different from that of British airways or Japan airline. I prefer British one. After boarding, the cabin crew came to asking the choice of the Entre and first drink. There was no selection of sparkling wines or champagnes. I had seen the tourist from America was so excited she served a glass of champagne and she ordered more two bottle of champagne (of course the quarter size) on British airways flight.

The entre was very American style. Once I had the flight from London to Edinburgh on early morning, I had been served the very lovely and traditional British breakfast on the BA economy class. The omelet is soft like sponge and very nice taste.

I was very surprised that American called the bread like scone “Biscotti”. It looks like the shape of scone with wolf mouse, but it was very salty, not butter-rich and very soft. I disappointed the British people had to teach the method of making the scones on their colonized period. And the strawberry jam was not good. The jam was made with corn silop and some pectin; it was very different from the British airways.

The coffee was not good as that served from Airline in Asian and European. The taste was very thin, smoky and sour like vinegar. This was real American coffee which served in Japanese coffee shop, I have never tasted one.

 

The cabin atmosphere was very comfortable and relaxed, but American.

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