This is real eating in Hong Kong – at a dai pai dong, a big cooked food center in North Point, HK. Beer is served out of bowls, and the food is just plain good and fresh, and the owner, Rob is out of control – he moonwalked for us and kept our glasses filled… with pink champagne. Weird but good.
Started the Tokyo eating at Kaikaya By The Sea, in Shibuya – it came highly recommended by several people who know good food. Best fish and seafood ever – prepared in both a traditional and new Japanese style. Everything we ordered was amazing. So good that I forgot to take pictures of most of it.
We had another awesome meal at Shirube, a traditional Izakaya in Shimokitazawa.
We found a great deal on the back of the menu – all you can drink with a ten course meal, for 4000 yen!
This is the fried prawn dish – which you dip into the egg sauce.
This was the cheese tofu. Soooo good.
Hug Burger in Tokyo – one of the best burgers ever. The owner went to New York two years ago, fell in love with Shake Shack, and came home to open his own burger shop in Tokyo. The bun is perfect – he gets them from a nearby Japanese bakery. The burger is well proportioned, and contents don’t squish out of the bun. He makes his own ketchup! The meal wasn’t complete without cheese fries, potato salad, coleslaw, and fried camembert cheese cubes.
Fried egg on a cheeseburger – good choice.
My avocado cheese burger. I loved it, and the homemade ketchup was outstanding!
Goes perfect with a Coca Cola.
The deep fried camembert cheese cubes!
A Tokyo Pug in Juicy Couture. Only in Tokyo.
Cute bar in Shimokitazawa – Cash On Delivery only.
Undercover in Aoyama
I love this floor.
This store wasn’t open yet, but it looked so cute from the outside. I wish the stores opened earlier here!
It’s near Cocongo in Harajuku, where we ate lunch later.
Cocongo Cafe – eat here when you’re in Harajuku!
Vintage in Harajuku
Fresh octopus at the Tsukiji Fish Market!
A giant tuna fish at the market, on a wheelbarrow!
That tuna turns into this! At Dai Sushi at the Tsukiji Market. We waited our turn at 5am, and it was worth it!
We had so many pieces from the chef’s omakase, that I forgot what this fish was called. But it was in my top 3!
Huge Opening Ceremony store in Shibuya
Can’t get enough Japanese pastries – especially these hot dogs! I stop every chance I get for these.
The alleyway of the antique Boutique Jeanne Valet in Daikanyama
My Japanese curry from Bombay Bazaar in Daikanyama, downstairs from Okura.
Kapital in Ebisu
Awesome outdoor car boot cafe and American Hot Dog and Hamburger spot along the canal of Nakameguro – my favorite Tokyo neighborhood! So many cute shops along the canal…
Cow Books and The Army Gym Men’s Shop in Nakameguro
Little antique jewelry shop – Domino Antik in Kamimeguro
Jantiques in Kamimeguro – cool vintage spot with men’s and women’s things.
First day in Tokyo and stumbled upon this cute cow who welcomed us into Cocongo, a really cozy restaurant that I mistook for a furniture shop. The decor is so cool, an eclectic mix of furniture and cool objects, and they served a two kinds of curry lunch – half green curry and half japanese curry with a football shaped mound of rice!
More photos of Villa Vals, the underground house in Switzerland, which is actually available for rent!
Anyone want to go for a ski holiday?
