Avoiding Food, Solo Dining, & The Best Lunch Deal In Manila
posted by Lori in Japanese, Restaurants
The original title of this post is, “What I Eat When I Don’t Want To Eat (Too Much).”
An obsession with dessert and other unabashed opinions of a food writer
The original title of this post is, “What I Eat When I Don’t Want To Eat (Too Much).”
This is a bowl of ramen whose spice level goes up to 20. But your mouth won’t feel a thing.
This ain’t yo’ mama-san’s ramen.
Giving in yields to a pleasant discovery.
How you pronounce its name, Umu, is up to you but I say “OO-moo.”
More than two months after my momentous visit to Japan, I’ve become a certified “Japanophile”, someone obsessed with Japan and anything Japanese. Of course this so-called obsession of mine is strictly limited to food, so I’ve been combing the local Japanese food stores, groceries, and restaurants – the more obscure, the better – and even [...]
your feast awaits you It’s deliciously daunting to think that I could face a feast of a thousand pleasures. Even I, with the seemingly bottomless pit that is my stomach, would have to concede defeat. But face it I did, though not quite in the way that you think. a setting for you at Senju [...]
There is no dearth of Japanese restaurants in Manila. I’ve met several restaurant owners who put up a Japanese restaurant simply because ‘they love Japanese food.’ Thus arises a cookie-cutter Japanese restaurant of sorts where you have the requisite sushi, donburi, and teppanyaki. Yawn. It’s a tried and true formula, yes, and it works for [...]
