Category: Food
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Mister James, McDonald’s and MOS Buger
An interesting article on the McDonald’s “Mister James” kerfuffle. Nice video with an alternative view pushing people to Mos Burger. http://thedailyyoji.blogspot.com/2009/09/mr-james-madness.html
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From SFO to Seattle
R. and I were in Seattle. Click “read more” to see a bunch of pictures and words about it. Seattle Space Needle Seattle Public Library, one of my favorite buildings in the city Monorail! I heard it put Ogdenville on the map! You can just make out the bus tunnel out the front […]
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Goro’s Diner: a Shibuya burger joint
Goro’s Diner Goro Burger Cakes! Last night I met three friends for dinner at Shibuya. I had heard about Goro’s diner over on tabelog and it looked interesting. An English search turned up
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I need to check out 紅虎餃子房 or 万豚記
According to Famitsu, the restaurants 紅虎餃子房 and 万豚記 will have SF4 themed menus from 2009-02-12 to 2009-04-12. There are a bunch of either of those places in Tokyo, so I should be able to find one. Didn’t look like there were any in Shibuya though. Also you get a card with a QR code and […]
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Two Christmas Dinners
Dinner Spread The Turkey Jam Cake Dinner with the in-laws The 23rd was a national holiday in Japan for the Emperor’s Birthday. It was also coming up on Christmas, so we got together with the in-laws for dinner. We usually get together once a week for a weekly dinner, so this isn’t an unusual occurrence, […]
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Real American Brownies
brownie mix brownies in the oven brownies are done This isn’t really something that deserves a blog post, but it gets one anyway. The other day I made brownies for the first time in Japan that actually came out correctly. I made them in my convection oven – one of the first times I’ve used […]
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A busy day – another typical blog post
13.1km loop 13.1km loop detail Shrimp Gratan Doughnut This is another really typical blog post. Nothing interesting here. I had a lot to do today, and didn’t get enough done. In the morning I got up at a reasonable time for the weekend – 9:30am, and called the family back home. It is hard to […]
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What I had for lunch and other misc
Breakfast: Mega McMuffin Lunch: Bento Dinner: Spaghetti with Meat Sauce Yeah, I know, the stereotypical “What I had for lunch” blog post. Well, you have to put up with these sometimes. This is a recent food post and a few other random notes. First up: food. Breakfast The other day I stopped by McDonald’s for […]
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Simplifying the menu
Quarter Pounders Only The simplified menu At work this afternoon a friend brought in a bag labeled simply “Quarter Pounder”. Our office is out in Shibuya, and randomly what used to be McDonald’s turned into some random post-modern simplified version of McDonald’s called simple “Quarter Pounder”. I guess they are promoting the Quarter Pounder coming […]
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A BBQ down by the Tamagawa River
Lots of people were having BBQs on Sunday down by the Tamagawa River BBQs make lots of garbage A surprisingly large number of men got naked and ran around Fundoshi and … tattoos On Sunday, I went down to the Tamagawa River for a BBQ with my friends Watanabe and Tokuda. I’ve been to maybe […]