Navigating Local Eats in Tokyo

Navigating Local Eats in Tokyo

Japanese cuisine is more than just sushi and sashimi. If you’re headed to Tokyo anytime soon and fancy a degustation of local flavors, check out this ABC article for some ideas on what to expect.

Once the menu is presented, the strange and often thrilling journey outside the comfort zone begins. Though Japanese cuisine is based on the familiar — rice, noodles, soups, tofu, fish, livestock — it also appears to embrace most of the other creatures that inhabit the region, with the exception of Hello Kitty. About 450 types of seafood are sold at the city’s Tsukiji fish market, the …read more

Pure Cafe: Vegan Dining in Tokyo

Pure Cafe: Vegan Dining in Tokyo

Dining options for vegans are difficult to find. No eggs, no milk, absolutely no traces of animal product at any point in the cooking or serving process.
In the Tokyo’s Omotesando, there’s Pure Cafe, featured on a recent article in the International Herald Tribune. Am not sure what a macrobiotic diet is. But I know that the Japanese are known for leading long healthy lives, and diet must play a big role in it. Metropolis Magazine gave Pure Cafe a stellar review:
We’ll spare you the old sob story about how Tokyo is hell for people who don’t eat meat—even worse for …read more


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