Meal Muji, Ginza Muji (which means plain or without a pattern in Japanese) is a popular store chain for non-branded housewares, clothing, accessories and food. Ayaka recently took us to the Muji shop in Ginza which has a Meal Muji cafeteria-style restaurant on the 2nd floor. At Meal Muji you can choose one of six [...]
Posts under ‘Food’
Window Shopping
Urban Dock LaLaport, Toyosu, Koto-ku Dagashiyumeya – fun old-school Japanese style snack shop with all sorts of snacks from various prices, some as little as 10 yen Toy figures of all kinds – anime character dolls, gundam models, kaiju (monsters) figures, superhero action figures, smurf figurines, itchy and scratchy dolls Bornelund great assortment of wooden [...]
Snacks for Toddlers
1sai kara no mild potato snack Ganbare! Yasai Kazoku (Do your best! Vegetable Family) vegetable rice crackers with spinach, carrots, and cabbage
What’s For Dinner?
Sizzler at Tokyo Dome Hotel, Tokyo Dome City The other day Irena, Milie and I treated ourselves and actually ate out for dinner with the kids. We don’t this this too often since we normally try to get home before rush hour and try to keep within a budget on our outings. Since we were [...]
Namjatown
Sunshine City, Ikebukuro There’s a place called Namjatown inside the Shunshine City complex in Ikebukuro. I think the best way to describe it is a food theme park.
Today’s Lunch
Zats Burger Cafe, Koenji My ex-roommate took us to Zats Burger Cafe. Their Sasebo Burger is is yummy! Keiji is not much into burgers or sandwiches so he just ate natural cut fries and Mexican salad (and onigiri, which they didn’t seem to mind was brought from outside).
More Matsuri Fun
There are matsuri (festivals) all over Tokyo during the summers. The matsuri, apart from being a time when the mikoshi is carried around for good luck, is actually like a big Japanese block party. Not only is it ok to drink beer outdoors from early morning until late at night, but there are lots of [...]
What’s for Lunch?
Koyanagi, Asakusa I hope it’s not becoming politically incorrect to like eating eel, since we just enjoyed unagi for lunch. It seems it may be soon be on the endangered species list, like blue fin tuna. Well, if you don’t feel to guilty it’d be worth trying the unagi at Koyanagi in Asakusa, just a [...]
What’s for Lunch?
Konaya, Oazo building Marunouchi Konaya is a restaurant chain which serves only curry udon. We went to the one inside the Oazo building in Marunouchi. Quite nice. The regular curry udon soup tasted sweeter than the one I tried with the beef slices, which was heavier. They also have curry udon with tempura or bananas. [...]
What’s for Lunch?
Zip Zap, Harajuku Yummy juicy burger from Zip Zap in Harajuku. It was so hard to order since the sandwiches all looked and sounded so tasty. My mom had the tuna melt which was also so good. K doesn’t like hamburger sandwiches much but he liked the vegetable soup and shoestring fries that came with [...]