In our recent visit to Hakone, we found a tiny restaurant named Kandachiya Soba that offers soba, buckwheat noodle. The restaurant was a full house when we arrived. Its narrow place can only fit about 10 people. It only took us less than five minutes to get a table. These days people don’t spend a …
As one of the most affluent areas in Tokyo, having a fine dining in Marunouchi is no challenge at all. There are more than enough restaurants to choose from the area, whether traditional Japanese, Italian or French restaurants can easily be found in Marunouchi. The great thing about Japan is any fine dining restaurant will …
Pasta is a traditional Italian dish. There is nothing Japanese about pasta. When it uses “dashi” (a Japanese broth made from kelp, bonito flakes and dried sardines), fish roe and is eaten using chopsticks, it’s officially a Japanese pasta. There are many varieties of Japanese pasta in the market. Mentaiko (fish roe) spaghetti, uni (sea …