This gallery contains 10 photos.
Kaiba Sushi – Ever since my family and I first arrived in Osaka for our trip to Kansai, I had been looking for a traditional sushi restaurant where I could have a proper sushi meal. I asked the ‘personal butler’ … Continue reading
This gallery contains 13 photos.
If my memory is reliable, I think my wife, kids, and I visited this tonkatsu restaurant during our first night in Osaka. We were actually actively looking for a tonkatsu restaurant while blindly exploring restaurant rows in and around the … Continue reading
This gallery contains 4 photos.
After spending around eight weeks constantly going hungry between meals as a result of the tiny local portion sizes in Taiwan (and Japan), I was really looking forward to the larger, more satisfying portion sizes of North America. Strangely, after … Continue reading
This gallery contains 6 photos.
Imai Honten – Contrary to the title I gave to this post, I did not look up Imai Honten on tripadvisor before visiting it. If it wasn’t for my travel agent majorly screwing up my family’s plane reservations -resulting in … Continue reading
This gallery contains 21 photos.
Up until now, the most expensive sushi meal that I’ve had (by a longshot) was at Tojo’s. My wife and I ended up paying $700 after tax for an omakase meal with two beers at the sushi bar. Neither me … Continue reading
I’ve been quite occupied for my last 2 weeks in Taiwan that I have failed to keep up with my usual rate of 1 post/day. Now that I’m back in town, I’m hoping to return to my previous pace…I just … Continue reading
This gallery contains 14 photos.
The Osaka Takoyaki Museum is only a museum in the loosest sense of the word. It is more of a collection of branches of the most popular and well-known takoyaki shops in Osaka. As mentioned in my post … Continue reading
This gallery contains 34 photos.
I usually research and plan out specific restaurants to eat at before I visit any city. Even for a city like Tokyo, which I have visited in excess of 10 times in the past decade, there are still countless restaurants … Continue reading
This gallery contains 13 photos.
I’ve been to my share of night markets in Taiwan and I plan on visiting one of the night markets in Richmond when I return at the end of August, but I never expected to visit a night market on … Continue reading
This gallery contains 7 photos.
Scallion pancakes are one of the staples of Northern Chinese food. It was brought over to Taiwan by the retreating Nationalists from China after their defeat in the Chinese civil war. Over the years, the scallion pancake has become so … Continue reading
