This little peanut and snack shop opened a few years after the war, and yet even now, after all those decades, its 90-year-old owner still isn’t ready to retire.
One Tokyo gyoza too many?
Maybe it was the beer, or possibly the bowl of ramen that went with them, but that last, sad looking solitary gyoza, was clearly one mouthful too many.
The simple delight of ordinary Tokyo
Tokyo is an extraordinary city in so many ways — a city that, even after two decades of living here, still never ceases to amaze. And yet for all its wonders, and occasional otherworldliness, it’s often the utterly ordinary that really stands out, such as these simple, but at the same time simply wonderful old businesses.
Simple Japanese summer festival food
On a hot summer’s day, it’s hard to beat the very simple pleasure of a chilled cucumber dipped in some salty miso. Or for those with a preference for something sweeter, a generous dollop of mayonnaise instead of the miso. Both of which, at least on this particular occasion, came with the added extra of a cold hard stare.
On the topic of summer, a rest and some travelling is very much in order, so from today, the usual 3 posts a week will be reduced to a far more manageable 1 every Monday. Then, from September 2nd, the regular Monday, Wednesday and Friday updates will resume as normal.
Battered and bruised after a big Tokyo night out?
Some scenes conjure up way more questions than they do answers.
