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Kyoto Green Tea Delights In Shibuya
If you love everything green tea, then Kyoto Uji Fujii Chaen is for you. Here, green tea is not limited to a refreshing beverage, but is also used as a main ingredient in various savory dishes like soba noodles, cakes and desserts.
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 Blending The Old With The New For Special Dietary Needs
In Japan, a kissaten refers to a traditional type of coffee shop that became popular in the Showa Era (1926–1989). While there are still kissaten out there, many have been replaced by more modern cafes, or chain coffee shops ...

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If there's one thing I love more than chocolate, it's meat. It was thus with watering mouth that I ventured to my first ever sampling of meat sushi. That's right, MEAT SUSHI! Oh praise be to the food Goddess for whomever she first gifted with this idea.
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Specialty Shop For Your Pillowy Loaf Of Bread 
Walking away from the bustling electric district of Akihabara, I chanced upon a shop that seemed out of place with its quiet elegance. Outside, the noren or traditional shop curtains displays the words 食パン (shokupan). Intrigued and en...

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A Contemporary Take On Japanese Cuisine
Sendai is really a foodie's paradise. The city claims nearly two dozen delicacies, such as its signature gyutan beef tongue, boasts delicious seafood and sushi from nearby Shiogama and Matsushima, and has a near endless variety of cuisine in it...

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A Passion For Exceptional Bread And Pastries
 
Our neighbor, an American and long time resident in Japan, told us of a bread shop a good 20 minute drive from where we live. He goes out of his way to get the best bread in the area. This afternoon, we were craving a good pastry to go w...

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A Surprisingly Affordable Restaurant In Tokyo's Hip Hub
As I walked through the streets of Daikanyama, I couldn't help but to feel like I was at another, more different part of Tokyo. It was totally relaxed, with no signs of striking neon lights, untouched by Japan's famous iconic ma...

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Ramen Chain Kourakuen's (In)Famous Valentine's Offering
For my birthday four years ago, my husband brought home a ramen cake from Sweets Paradise. It was a baffling experience to eat because visual cues signal you to expect something savory and salty but the ramen and all its topping...

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Chopped Salad Specialists Expand In Tokyo
Crisp Salad Works brings the New York trend of chopped salads to Tokyo's Daikanyama, at their fourth branch in a fast-growing chain brought to the capital by serial restaurateur Roy Miyano – of Tex-Mex specialists Frijole fame.
 
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Hearty Hoto Noodles That Aren't Noodles
Japan may be the only country in the world where eating a bowl of noodles feels the same as sitting in a hot spring...
You see, if you've been to the northern side of Lake Kawaguchi (yes, one of Mount Fuji's five famous lakes), you've more than...

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