{"id":589,"date":"2011-09-19T16:04:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mohoyt.com\/blog\/?p=589"},"modified":"2011-09-19T16:04:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T15:04:48","slug":"food-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/2011\/food-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Food in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so after my previous article on food, I feel like I should write another on a similar topic. A different country however. I love Japanese food. So much so that I even get terrible Sushi here just for comfort. I don’t go out of my way to eat terrible such, it’s just that most places here aren’t exactly amazing (though I did find a reasonable one in London recently, Yoshino<\/a>). What I actually miss loads is Ramen. Warm huge bowls of noodle based awesomeness. Before I went to Japan, I read this fantastic article<\/a> in the Times about the Ramen culture and the people who endeavour to visit mad amounts of Ramen joints. It’s fantastic. So much so that when I was walking through Harajuku at lunchtime one day I decided just to go for it, and visit an interesting looking ramen place. Upon arriving, I was faced with this. <\/p>\n

\"Ramen<\/a>
Ramen Ticket Machine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pretty indecipherable huh? I did manage however, and ordered fairly spicy ramen with minced pork. It was excellent. I wish they did half decent noodles here. I like Wagamama, but it has got boring recently. Too boring. <\/p>\n

\"Yakumo<\/a>
Yakumo Saryo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another restaurant that I had a chance the amazing opportunity to visit when I was in Tokyo was one called Yakumo Saryo<\/a>. This is one hell of a cool place. Seemed like a secret dining place, judging by the company and the restaurant’s personal service, but the Kaiseki<\/a> cuisine served there was unbelievable. There’s a fantastic writeup of the restaurant here<\/a>. I had exactly the same dishes, and I was in awe the entire meal. Do check it out!<\/p>\n

\"Maguro<\/a>
Maguro no kama no supearibu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The final place that I think is worth mentioning, was so good that I went twice. Kaikaya<\/a>. It’s hidden up a street near Shibuya, and it does wonderful sashimi and grilled fish with european influences. Some of the amazing dishes there include a fish carpaccio (sengyo no carpaccio) and grilled tuna sparerib (maguro no kama no supearibu). Both are unbelievable, but I’d suggest ordering omakase (Y3500), and getting a selection of everything on offer. Really really worth going to. I will definitely be back there when I grace Tokyo again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And so after my previous article on food, I feel like I should write another on a similar topic. A different country however. I love Japanese food. So much so that I even get terrible Sushi here just for comfort. I don’t go out of my way to eat terrible such, it’s just that most places here aren’t exactly amazing (though I did find a reasonable one in London recently, Yoshino<\/a>). What I actually miss loads is Ramen. Warm huge bowls of noodle based awesomeness. Before I went to Japan, I read this fantastic article<\/a> in the Times about the Ramen culture and the people who endeavour to visit mad amounts of Ramen joints. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}