Restaurant Review
Watte Chai: Kyoto’s only Indian tea stall
In Uji (宇治), the mecca for Japanese green tea ‘Uji tea (宇治茶)’, tea shops and cafes are everywhere. […]
Street food
Restaurant Review
Sameya, Hyogo: Kobe Chinatown’s shark ramen
Jaws! That’s what I said when I saw Sameya’s signboard. Lame, I sounded naive: I wasn’t ready to […]
Restaurant Review
Nasco Food Court: Japanized kebab at Tokyo’s Islam Alley
Nasco Food Court on Islam Alley (イスラム横丁) in Tokyo’s Koreatown “Shin Okubo (新大久保)” offers traditional, Japanized Turkish-ish doner […]
Restaurant Review
Mustafa’s Gemuse Kebap: Berlin’s best kebab
Here’s what Mustafa’s Gemuse Kebap (Mustafa’s Gemüse Kebap) in Berlin looks like. There are also a menu, a […]
Restaurant Review
Miznon, Tel Aviv: Israel’s most famous street food
In Tel Aviv, the first location of an internationally renowned Israeli street food chain, Miznon by Eyal Shani, […]
Restaurant Review
Izakaya Toyo, Osaka, Japan: The flamethrower chef from Netflix
The legendary izakaya/street food vendor in Japan’s third biggest city Osaka, Izakaya Toyo, offers drop-dead local Japanese seafood […]
Restaurant Review
Faina, Shiga, Japan: Blinchiki food truck by Ukrainian “evacuees”
2 Ukrainian “evacuees” and their family opened the blinchiki (Ukrainian pancake) food truck Faina, in Shiga prefecture, in […]