Food
Osteria Radici (Mita)
Thu, 02 May, 2024
Thursday night dinner…
Celebrating the 2nd half of Golden Week just begins.
Right? Yeah, need such celebration!
Reservation made at Osteria Radici located in Mita area.
Sort unfamiliar area to our family.
Though, worth to challenge such new discovery!
Very cozy place with full of guests tonight.
Man, Lamb chops were SUPER!
This dish of past was another super hit.
This pasta was about ramen noodles… hahaha.
Another good place found for sure.
Recommended.
https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1314/A131402/13202357/
Celebrating the 2nd half of Golden Week just begins.
Right? Yeah, need such celebration!
Reservation made at Osteria Radici located in Mita area.
Sort unfamiliar area to our family.
Though, worth to challenge such new discovery!
Very cozy place with full of guests tonight.
Man, Lamb chops were SUPER!
This dish of past was another super hit.
This pasta was about ramen noodles… hahaha.
Another good place found for sure.
Recommended.
https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1314/A131402/13202357/
French Dining in Yokohama
Sun, 28 April, 2024
Big dinner took place quite far today.
Very exceptional.
MoonFlower wanted this in particular.
Went out with some dressy style. Hahaha.
Minimum, though.
Our destination for the day - Restaurant Artisan.
French cuisine.
Restaurant Artisan is now becoming famous since highly rated by famous cuisine site.
Well, no doubt about such high reputation.
Was a good and reasonable dinner.
https://tabelog.com/en/kanagawa/A1401/A140104/14070514/
Very exceptional.
MoonFlower wanted this in particular.
Went out with some dressy style. Hahaha.
Minimum, though.
Our destination for the day - Restaurant Artisan.
French cuisine.
Restaurant Artisan is now becoming famous since highly rated by famous cuisine site.
Well, no doubt about such high reputation.
Was a good and reasonable dinner.
https://tabelog.com/en/kanagawa/A1401/A140104/14070514/
Sushi "U WO TOKU" (Higashi Mukojima)
Sat, 20 April, 2024
My (51) birthday is around the corner and our family went out to celebrate.
Came to our "always" place called UWOTOKU - very popular sushi place.
Quite expensive but definitely worth it.
Recommended but be sure that you are able to handle Japanese language.
https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1312/A131203/13017947/
Came to our "always" place called UWOTOKU - very popular sushi place.
Quite expensive but definitely worth it.
Recommended but be sure that you are able to handle Japanese language.
https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1312/A131203/13017947/
Unagi (eel) at Narita
Sat, 13 April, 2024
To Narita, Chiba for fun today.
It was MoonFlower's friend's birthday and we got together to celebrate.
Narita Station
Way down to Narita Shinshoji - the Temple.
Front gate.
Temple for prayer- wishing health and business success.
It was heavy rain when we all came last year.
This year, clear weather.
Surugaya - famous eel restaurant.
Still lunch, but party started.
White eel - without source.
Regular "Unaju" with dark source.
Eel is expensive dish for sure… but definitely worth it.
For supper, showed up to friend's place - tavern.
Called "Tetsu Ryu" or "Tetsu's style."
We all were full. Quite full for sure!
Great day with great food and drinks!!!
What else?!
It was MoonFlower's friend's birthday and we got together to celebrate.
Narita Station
Way down to Narita Shinshoji - the Temple.
Front gate.
Temple for prayer- wishing health and business success.
It was heavy rain when we all came last year.
This year, clear weather.
Surugaya - famous eel restaurant.
Still lunch, but party started.
White eel - without source.
Regular "Unaju" with dark source.
Eel is expensive dish for sure… but definitely worth it.
For supper, showed up to friend's place - tavern.
Called "Tetsu Ryu" or "Tetsu's style."
We all were full. Quite full for sure!
Great day with great food and drinks!!!
What else?!
Great and Fun
Sun, 07 April, 2024
Weekend is over!
Big sofa chairs are back from maintenance. Finally.
They were gone since mid-February.
Now back like brand new! Cool.
Winning voucher! From Oka Sho (Cherry Blossoms Stakes).
It was small bet and won small as well. Fun, though.
For dinner, MoonFlower and I showed up in Ginza.
Dinner was planned with a couple who I used to work with.
Ginza Espero - Spanish cuisine tonight.
MF and I have been here before. Such a long time ago, though.
Great Paella dish.
Some steak, also.
Finished with dessert.
Didn't take pictures of dishes that came in 1st half of the course.
I was eager to talk!!! Hahaha.
It was fun to talk about old days and current up-to-date about people we know in common.
Great dinner. Fun reunion.
Big sofa chairs are back from maintenance. Finally.
They were gone since mid-February.
Now back like brand new! Cool.
Winning voucher! From Oka Sho (Cherry Blossoms Stakes).
It was small bet and won small as well. Fun, though.
For dinner, MoonFlower and I showed up in Ginza.
Dinner was planned with a couple who I used to work with.
Ginza Espero - Spanish cuisine tonight.
MF and I have been here before. Such a long time ago, though.
Great Paella dish.
Some steak, also.
Finished with dessert.
Didn't take pictures of dishes that came in 1st half of the course.
I was eager to talk!!! Hahaha.
It was fun to talk about old days and current up-to-date about people we know in common.
Great dinner. Fun reunion.
Reward after Hard Work
Wed, 03 April, 2024
Long day - I managed 6 hour management workshop.
Made it smoothly and feel good about it.
Have to do that another 4 times?! Yeah, will do it all!
Good thing about this project, I come to free lunch.
Yeah, good one, too.
Some kind of luxury taste. Hahaha.
It was from "Imahan" in Ningyocho.
After workshop successfully delivered, it was a reward time.
MoonFlower and I went out to dine.
Dinning at local foodie place.
Authentic Japanese tavern place in Bakuroyokoyama.
Place called "Sahara-Ya."
Very local. Nostalgic, too.
See!
Food as well.
Came home totally full. Thank God.
Great reward to myself.
In addition, we came to have sweets as well.
More than perfect!
Made it smoothly and feel good about it.
Have to do that another 4 times?! Yeah, will do it all!
Good thing about this project, I come to free lunch.
Yeah, good one, too.
Some kind of luxury taste. Hahaha.
It was from "Imahan" in Ningyocho.
After workshop successfully delivered, it was a reward time.
MoonFlower and I went out to dine.
Dinning at local foodie place.
Authentic Japanese tavern place in Bakuroyokoyama.
Place called "Sahara-Ya."
Very local. Nostalgic, too.
See!
Food as well.
Came home totally full. Thank God.
Great reward to myself.
In addition, we came to have sweets as well.
More than perfect!
I guess, am STILL healthy...
Fri, 22 March, 2024
Friday was quite peaceful to me. Thank God!
Yeah, literally, TGIF it was.
Started to see a doctor at the clinic in the morning.
Oh before that, took the blood pressure to ensure that I am still okay.
Yep, still okay.
Then doc showed me the result of blood test took place the other day.
All things are okay! Am still ordinary. Hahaha.
Though, still stomach upset which is controlled by medicine needs to be diagnosed.
So, I went under endoscopy.
Things went okay.
After the exam, doc told me that there was nothing found.
Thus, he asked me to come back in several weeks to see if things get better by then or not.
Okay… at least every possible thing has been checked out. CT and endoscopy. Good.
Better than good. I exhausted all options that I had! Right?
I feel good.
Work was quite normal and no issues acknowledged. Another weekend is coming in peace.
Went out to a dry cleaner for taking care of suits that I recently wore quite often.
From next week, different suits should be coming out of my closet for spring and even summer!
Family dinner at Friday night took place at bistro called "Le Marais."
Very close to Asakusabashi Station.
1st time for us to go in… never before.
Casual but cool place we found.
Everything was great.
Except this wagyu house-special dish… portion was quite small.
Compared to the price, I guess this needs to be fixed in a better way.
Otherwise, things were quite nice with good service.
Reasonable price with good atomosphere. Good place discovered for sure.
Now, weekend! What shall we do?! Any plan? Hahaha.
Yeah, literally, TGIF it was.
Started to see a doctor at the clinic in the morning.
Oh before that, took the blood pressure to ensure that I am still okay.
Yep, still okay.
Then doc showed me the result of blood test took place the other day.
All things are okay! Am still ordinary. Hahaha.
Though, still stomach upset which is controlled by medicine needs to be diagnosed.
So, I went under endoscopy.
Things went okay.
After the exam, doc told me that there was nothing found.
Thus, he asked me to come back in several weeks to see if things get better by then or not.
Okay… at least every possible thing has been checked out. CT and endoscopy. Good.
Better than good. I exhausted all options that I had! Right?
I feel good.
Work was quite normal and no issues acknowledged. Another weekend is coming in peace.
Went out to a dry cleaner for taking care of suits that I recently wore quite often.
From next week, different suits should be coming out of my closet for spring and even summer!
Family dinner at Friday night took place at bistro called "Le Marais."
Very close to Asakusabashi Station.
1st time for us to go in… never before.
Casual but cool place we found.
Everything was great.
Except this wagyu house-special dish… portion was quite small.
Compared to the price, I guess this needs to be fixed in a better way.
Otherwise, things were quite nice with good service.
Reasonable price with good atomosphere. Good place discovered for sure.
Now, weekend! What shall we do?! Any plan? Hahaha.
Sweets Hunter / Happy Hunting
Wed, 20 March, 2024
Kinda crazy weather it was today!
Sunshine didn't last too long and turned out to be very windy and rainy!
Oh boy.
At least, MoonFlower and I went out for sweets.
Yeah, something still accomplished.
Went in to "Oyatsu No Koboku" - cake shop in Hamacho.
Oyatsu no Koboku (cake shop)
https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1302/A130204/13264654/
Very popular and required a booking for buying!
Cozy place. Used to have eat-in area but no more.
Big happy shopping!
On the way back home, stopped by a Vietnamese restaurant for lunch.
Never been to this place before. I knew and I had an idea going to eat there in my mind.
Finally… got here.
333 Vietnamese Restaurant
https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1302/A130204/13246938/
My favorite Vietnamese food is of Pho noodles.
This bowl of noodles was pretty good!
A little bit pricey, though. 950 yen.
After the lunch, came out of the restaurant, it was raining outside…
So simply went back home and didn't go out all afterwards.
Since varieties of cakes home, it was a good tea/coffee time awaited.
Strawberry tart cake
Rare cheese cake
Over the supper, opened a wine bottle and watched MLB opening game.
Yeah, Dalvish vs. Otani.
Cannot miss it.
Man, it was very relaxing day off (national holiday).
Yet, have to get back to the realty tomorrow.
Oh boy…
However, just sucking up everything for two days - Thursday and Friday,
another weekend is to be here… Right?
Let's look at the bright side of things.
Bygones.
Sunshine didn't last too long and turned out to be very windy and rainy!
Oh boy.
At least, MoonFlower and I went out for sweets.
Yeah, something still accomplished.
Went in to "Oyatsu No Koboku" - cake shop in Hamacho.
Oyatsu no Koboku (cake shop)
https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1302/A130204/13264654/
Very popular and required a booking for buying!
Cozy place. Used to have eat-in area but no more.
Big happy shopping!
On the way back home, stopped by a Vietnamese restaurant for lunch.
Never been to this place before. I knew and I had an idea going to eat there in my mind.
Finally… got here.
333 Vietnamese Restaurant
https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1302/A130204/13246938/
My favorite Vietnamese food is of Pho noodles.
This bowl of noodles was pretty good!
A little bit pricey, though. 950 yen.
After the lunch, came out of the restaurant, it was raining outside…
So simply went back home and didn't go out all afterwards.
Since varieties of cakes home, it was a good tea/coffee time awaited.
Strawberry tart cake
Rare cheese cake
Over the supper, opened a wine bottle and watched MLB opening game.
Yeah, Dalvish vs. Otani.
Cannot miss it.
Man, it was very relaxing day off (national holiday).
Yet, have to get back to the realty tomorrow.
Oh boy…
However, just sucking up everything for two days - Thursday and Friday,
another weekend is to be here… Right?
Let's look at the bright side of things.
Bygones.
Big Work Done!!!
Tue, 19 March, 2024
Such a long day!!!
Well, biggest event, as a part of one project, took place today.
Practically, 6-hour workshop with management personnel.
I had to handle 9 different topics within.
Yeah, good discussions are expected along with my effective time management.
You know how it seems to be difficult.
At least I was rewarded with good catering lunch:
"Ningyocho Imahan" bento box was provided.
Good one… but wanted beef more!
Hahaha.
10 mins to 5pm, all got done as planned.
Perfect time management with good, better than good, outcomes!
I fulfilled my responsibilities for the day.
Very relieved for sure.
Teammates and I celebrated today's accomplishment in the Chinese restaurant.
Lots of talks… mostly work or career?!
Anyhow, it was a good time.
Feel quite well since good work and, in a matter of fact, day off tomorrow.
National holiday tomorrow.
Good deal.
I will take a good rest for sure.
Well, biggest event, as a part of one project, took place today.
Practically, 6-hour workshop with management personnel.
I had to handle 9 different topics within.
Yeah, good discussions are expected along with my effective time management.
You know how it seems to be difficult.
At least I was rewarded with good catering lunch:
"Ningyocho Imahan" bento box was provided.
Good one… but wanted beef more!
Hahaha.
10 mins to 5pm, all got done as planned.
Perfect time management with good, better than good, outcomes!
I fulfilled my responsibilities for the day.
Very relieved for sure.
Teammates and I celebrated today's accomplishment in the Chinese restaurant.
Lots of talks… mostly work or career?!
Anyhow, it was a good time.
Feel quite well since good work and, in a matter of fact, day off tomorrow.
National holiday tomorrow.
Good deal.
I will take a good rest for sure.
Ohroji (Shinjuku)
Sat, 24 February, 2024
Came to Shinjuku for showrooming purpose.
Didn't buy anything. Just checked things around.
It was good time, though.
In fact, I felt that I should come more often, particularly to Shinjuku Isetan.
Man's fashion - huge collection and seasonal stuff are there…
Yeah, I will come more often then.
After finishing my errand in that area, looked for a place to eat.
Recalled several past trials that didn't come to succeed.
It was of Ohroji - Tonkatsu over curry bowl.
Or simply "Katsu Curry Don."
Well, this shop called it as "TON DON." Ton is of pork meat.
I gave upon waiting lines twice in the past.
Then, this is 3rd try… and made it finally.
It was quite unique bowl food and definitely loved it.
After posting such photo to my IG, several IG friends told me to check out something else.
Man, I'd better go some other time to check more things out.
Anyhow, here is more information about Ohroji for you:
新宿 王ろじ とん丼《嵐や渡部建さんも紹介した行列グルメ》
Be aware that there must be a line that you have to wait for a while to come to your desired dish!
Didn't buy anything. Just checked things around.
It was good time, though.
In fact, I felt that I should come more often, particularly to Shinjuku Isetan.
Man's fashion - huge collection and seasonal stuff are there…
Yeah, I will come more often then.
After finishing my errand in that area, looked for a place to eat.
Recalled several past trials that didn't come to succeed.
It was of Ohroji - Tonkatsu over curry bowl.
Or simply "Katsu Curry Don."
Well, this shop called it as "TON DON." Ton is of pork meat.
I gave upon waiting lines twice in the past.
Then, this is 3rd try… and made it finally.
It was quite unique bowl food and definitely loved it.
After posting such photo to my IG, several IG friends told me to check out something else.
Man, I'd better go some other time to check more things out.
Anyhow, here is more information about Ohroji for you:
新宿 王ろじ とん丼《嵐や渡部建さんも紹介した行列グルメ》
Be aware that there must be a line that you have to wait for a while to come to your desired dish!
"Bistro Yen" (Kayabacho)
Fri, 09 February, 2024
Family dinner time!
Showed up to a popular restaurant called "Bistro Yen" located in Kayabacho area.
Always popular among young adults, particularly female.
No wonder my Chaykin kept smiling rather than confused. Hahaha.
Appetizer. Small but quite rich!
Started with wine as usual.
Selected free-refill of brads with 1,200 yen. That was RIGHT choice we made.
Some amusement?! Hahaha.
Salad comes with colorful appearance.
Another wine
Another bread
Lamb. That should be it. Nothing else.
Still one more round - a piece of bread to finish it all!
More difficult to book a table particularly for lunch.
Though, it is definitely worth it.
Here is some intro from Youtube for ya:
MoonFlower definitely loved it and we will come back for sure.
Showed up to a popular restaurant called "Bistro Yen" located in Kayabacho area.
Always popular among young adults, particularly female.
No wonder my Chaykin kept smiling rather than confused. Hahaha.
Appetizer. Small but quite rich!
Started with wine as usual.
Selected free-refill of brads with 1,200 yen. That was RIGHT choice we made.
Some amusement?! Hahaha.
Salad comes with colorful appearance.
Another wine
Another bread
Lamb. That should be it. Nothing else.
Still one more round - a piece of bread to finish it all!
More difficult to book a table particularly for lunch.
Though, it is definitely worth it.
Here is some intro from Youtube for ya:
MoonFlower definitely loved it and we will come back for sure.
Sakana to Kome (Kodenmacho)
Fri, 19 January, 2024
New discovery tonight!
Came to find a good reasonable tavern place not too far from home!
Called "Sakana to Kome."
Literally means that Fish and Rice.
Rice is not only of white rice but also sake alcohol.
Easy to find, not far from Kodenmacho Station.
Deep fried is another choice.
Big tuna is perfect addition.
Kama or head of tuna is great finish!
Very reasonable pricing on top of good quality!!!
Cannot miss this place out for sure.
Sakanatokome
Came to find a good reasonable tavern place not too far from home!
Called "Sakana to Kome."
Literally means that Fish and Rice.
Rice is not only of white rice but also sake alcohol.
Easy to find, not far from Kodenmacho Station.
Deep fried is another choice.
Big tuna is perfect addition.
Kama or head of tuna is great finish!
Very reasonable pricing on top of good quality!!!
Cannot miss this place out for sure.
Sakanatokome