5:22pm, the last dinner. Santouka Ramen (らーめん山頭火) on the 7th floor of Tokyo Odakyu Department Store, Nishi-Shinjuku (東京都新宿区西新宿1-1-3 小田急新宿ミロード７階).
So, is the toroniku (な頬肉) better than that in Singapore? You bet.
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
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7:17pm, Marugo Tonkatsu (とんかつ丸五), Akihabara (秋葉原).
6:20pm. Yours truly trying to decide what to have. One of the rare times you’ll see me in a suit.
1:11pm, PANCAKE DAYs (パンケーキディズ) in Harajuku (原宿). Found this restaurant while lost in the back lanes of Harajuku looking for a particular cafe.
Pancakes for boys and girls big and little. Who can resist pancakes with smiley faces?
Everything here is meant to put a smile on your face.
Just look at that coat of cheese. How did it taste? Awesome.
With pancakes swimming in our stomachs, we stepped out of PANCAKE DAYs only to find the damn cafe we had spent an hour looking for next door…
7:22pm, dinner with Kazutoshi. Shimazu Shabu-shabu (黒豚しゃぶしゃぶ 島津), Shinjuku 3-chome (新宿三丁目).
Kazu-san excelled in Arts during his high school days, hence the pretty arrangement.
Feeling adventurous, we gave horse meat a try. The only thing I can say after trying is “Twaaang…”
1:42pm. Chanced upon this ramen restaurant, Hirugao (ひるがお) , while walking around Tokyo Station (東京駅). It is one of the four renowned names in ramen that make up the Tokyo Ramen Street (東京ラーメンストリー) in First Avenue Tokyo Station (東京駅一番街), a three-floor commercial and retail establishment linked to Tokyo Station via the Yaesu (八重洲) east exit.
Hirugao (ひるがお) hails from Setagaya (世田谷), and specializes in shio ramen. The small prawn on the egg was a nice, dainty touch.
It’s pretty unusual for ramen noodles to have such visible wheat grains.
12:28pm, lunch at WIRED CAFE, Shinjuku Mitsukoshi ALCOTT (新宿三越アルコット). Took two hours out of the day’s schedule to prepare a director’s treatment for a potential project. Tetanus’s vacationus interruptus.
This shot was taken with my iPhone 4.
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34, male and very Cancerian. Often irascible, even if he is prescient to his emotions. Lives for the resonance of beautiful passages, cinematic magic and aural bliss. Dabbles in fiction writing, photography, sketching and daydreaming in his free time, even though he is paid to do just those in a professional capacity.
He is, in other words, quite a geek.
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